albuminoid
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And when present in the blood, it rapidly attracts both water and hemoglobin from the corpuscular and albuminoid elements of that fluid, and thereby diminishes its reception and distribution of oxygen.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen
Gelatin, a constituent of soup and obtained from bones and connective tissue by boiling, is the best known of the albuminoid foods.
From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. Walters
A soluble animal substance produced in the stomach by the digestion of the albuminoid substances.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
An albuminoid substance found in the blood; in coagulating it assumes a fibrous form.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
Finally, it would seem that a colloid of one of the albuminoid groups is a necessary constituent of every living being.
From The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc
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