Word Meanings - PROTEIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name. Protein crystal. See Crystalloid, n., 2.

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• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• ALKALINITY
  The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property. Thomson.
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• CRYSTALLIZE
  To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
• CRYSTALLOGRAPHER
  One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.
• ALBUMINIMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.
• CRYSTAL
  The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
• CRYSTALLOMETRY
  The art of measuring crystals.
• CRYSTALLIZABLE
  Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
• ALKALIZATE
  Alkaline. Boyle.
• ALBUMINOSIS
  A morbid condition due to excessive increase of albuminous elements in the blood.
• CRYSTALLURGY
  Crystallizaton.
• ALBUMIN
  A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in
• ALBUMINOIDAL
  Of the nature of an albuminoid.
• CRYSTALLITE
  A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form
• ALKALIMETRY
  The art or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.
• PROTEIN
  A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name. Protein crystal. See Crystalloid, n., 2.
• ALBUMINIFEROUS
  Supplying albumen.
• CRYSTALLOID
  Crystal-like; transparent like crystal.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• HEMIALBUMIN
  See HEMIALBUMOSE
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• INCONSIDERATION
  Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• MYCOPROTEIN
  The protoplasmic matter of which bacteria are composed.