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albumin

6 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. albumin (noun)
  2. albumin tannate (noun)
  3. blood albumin (noun)
  4. blood-albumin glue (noun)
  5. Diamond albumin test (noun)
  6. serum albumin (noun)

al·bu·min

noun \al-ˈbyü-mən; ˈal-ˌbyü-, -byə-\

Definition of ALBUMIN

: any of numerous simple heat-coagulable water-soluble proteins that occur in blood plasma or serum, muscle, the whites of eggs, milk, and other animal substances and in many plant tissues and fluids
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Origin of ALBUMIN

International Scientific Vocabulary albumen + -in
First Known Use: 1802

Rhymes with ALBUMIN

acumen, albumen, bitumen, cerumen, ichneumon, illumine, inhuman, panhuman, prehuman, subhuman

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