a. and sb. [ad. mod.L. albūminōs-us: see ALBUMEN and -OSE.]
A. adj. = ALBUMINOUS.
a. 1859. Worcester cites Smith.
1880. Gray, Bot. Text-Bk., 395. Albuminose, said of seeds provided with albumen.
B. sb. A crystalloid substance derived from albumen by the action of pepsin in weak acid solutions.
1847–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., IV. 163/2. Bonchardat obtained a substance by digesting moist fibrin in water … which he called albuminose.
