albumin

See also: Albumin and albümin

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ăl byōō' mən, IPA^(key): /æl.ˈbjuː.mən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈalbjʊmɪn/

• Audio (US)

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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.

Derived terms

• albinterferon
• albuminaceous
• albuminate
• albuminemia
• albuminin
• albuminise
• albuminome
• albuminosis
• albuminous
• albuminuria
• alloalbumin
• analbuminaemia
• azoalbumin
• hemialbumin
• lactalbumin
• metalbumin
• microalbumin
• nonalbumin
• nucleoalbumin
• paralbumin
• parvalbumin
• prealbumin
• seralbumin
• seroalbumin

 

Related terms

• albumen
• glycoalbumin

Translations

class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 白蛋白 (baak⁶ daan^6-2 baak⁶)

  Mandarin: 白蛋白 (zh) (báidànbái)

• Esperanto: albumino
• Finnish: albumiini (fi)
• French: albumine (fr) f
• German: Albumin (de) n
• Greek: λευκωματίνη f (lefkomatíni), αλβουμίνη f (alvoumíni)
• Hindi: श्विति (hi) (śviti)
• Ido: albumino (io)
• Irish: albaimin f
• Italian: albumina (it) f
• Japanese: アルブミン (arubumin)
• Korean: 알부민 (albumin)
• Polish: albumina (pl) f
• Portuguese: albumina f
• Romanian: albumină (ro) f
• Russian: альбуми́н (ru) m (alʹbumín)
• Spanish: albúmina (es) f
• Turkish: albümin (tr)

Further reading

• albumin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From French albumine, from Latin albūmen (“egg white”), from albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /albumiːn/, [alb̥uˈmiːˀn]

Noun

albumin n (singular definite albuminet, plural indefinite albuminer)

1. (physiology, organic chemistry) albumin

Inflection

Declension of albumin

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	albumin	albuminet	albuminer	albuminerne
genitive	albumins	albuminets	albuminers	albuminernes

Further reading

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

Finnish

Noun

albumin

1. genitive singular of albumi