different between albumin vs albumina

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French albumine, from Latin albumen. Compare English albumen.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?l by??' m?n, IPA^(key): /æl.?bju?.m?n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?albj?m?n/

Noun

albumin (countable and uncountable, plural albumins)

1. (biochemistry) Any of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume.

Related terms

• albumen
• glycoalbumin

Translations

Further reading

• albumin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Danish

Etymology

From French albumine, from Latin alb?men (“egg white”), from albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /albumi?n/, [alb?u?mi??n]

Noun

albumin n (singular definite albuminet, plural indefinite albuminer)

1. (physiology, organic chemistry) albumin

Inflection

Further reading

• “albumin” in Den Danske Ordbog
• albumin on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Finnish

Noun

albumin

1. Genitive singular form of albumi.

English

Noun

albumina

1. plural of albumen
   • 1847: George Luxford & Edward Newman, The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany, p980

     3^rd. The confluence of the albumina of several sacks into one albumen.

   • 1853: A 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.”

Anagrams

• Balumain, bimanual, manubial

Finnish

Noun

albumina

1. Essive singular form of albumi.

Interlingua

Noun

albumina (uncountable)

1. albumin

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.bu?mi.na/

Noun

albumina f (plural albumine)

1. (biochemistry) albumin

Latin

Noun

alb?mina

1. nominative plural of alb?men
2. accusative plural of alb?men
3. vocative plural of alb?men

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

albumina f (plural albuminas)

1. (organic chemistry) albumin (one of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water)