Noun
noun plural form
- Plural of albumen
- 1847: George Luxford & Edward Newman, The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany, p9803
rd. The confluence of the
albumina of several sacks into one albumen.
COLLABORATIVE WORK — AUTHORSHIP UNCERTAIN,
The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy,
page 408- 1. In the same manner as there exists an Anaemia, from diminution of the proportion of blood-globules, we ought equally to admit a peculiar pathological state, distinguished by lowering of the number of albumina in the serum.
- 1983: Dr. Patrick Frank of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth (Israel), the Jerusalem Post, 13
th day of June edition; quoted in:
- 1999: A J Vroman, On God, Space, and Time, p125“A sound theory about the origin of man has to explain how an antibody specially composed to react on an albumen of a certain species also reacts on similar albumina of closely related animals and that the intensity of the reaction gradually decreases in creatures which differ more and more from these animals.â€
