hemialbumose

English

Etymology

From hemi- +‎ albumose.

Noun

hemialbumose (countable and uncountable, plural hemialbumoses)

1. (biochemistry) An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone.

Synonyms

• hemialbumin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hemialbumose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)