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Albuminous   Listen
adjective
Albuminous, Albuminose  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or containing, albumin; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin; an older term now replaces by proteinaceous.
2.
Proteinaceous; containing or composed of protein.





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"Albuminous" Quotes from Famous Books



... of herbivorous animals is composed of muscular and adipose (fatty) tissues. The muscles consist of bundles of elastic fibres (fibrine), enclosed in an albuminous tissue formed of little vessels, termed cells, and intimately commingled with water, and a mixture of albuminous, fatty, and saline matters. The leanest flesh (muscles) contains fat, but the latter accumulates in certain parts of the body—often ...
— The Stock-Feeder's Manual - the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and - feeding of live stock • Charles Alexander Cameron
... above all, in the milking cow, the womb or udder carries on a work in one sense equivalent to that otherwise performed by the kidneys. Not only are these organs alike channels for the excretion of albuminous products, but they are also related to each other structurally and by nervous sympathy, so that suffering in the one is liable to induce some measure of ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture


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