albumin Definition
al·bu·min (al byo̵̅o̅′min)
noun
any of a group of water-soluble proteins found in milk, egg, muscle, blood, and in many vegetable tissues and fluids: albumins are coagulated by heat and are hydrolyzed to a number of amino acids
Etymology: album(en) + -in
albumin Usage Examples
Converse of object
use: Commonly these indices would use albumin and markers of immune status, such as total lymphocyte count, to screen patients.
Preposition: in
- patient: Can reduction in extracellular fluid volume result in increased serum albumin in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis patients?
- urine: A diagnosis is made by measuring the amount of the protein albumin in the urine.
Adjective modifier
- bovine: A further bovine blood product, bovine serum albumin ( BSA ), is often added to serum for nutritional purposes.
- human: More on the Medicines Control Agency The Cochrane Injuries group was investigating the use of human albumin in the treatment of burns victims.
- low: Most patients with advanced disease will have a low serum albumin.
- intravenous: Interventions: Intravenous albumin was given at the time of oocyte retrieval.
- 2s: Isolation, characterization and expression of a gene coding for a 2S albumin from Bertholletia excelsa ( Brazil nut ).
Modifies a noun
- excretion: The primary outcome was the change in albumin excretion rate.
- concentration: Serum glucose, bilirubin, calcium, phosphorus, protein and albumin concentrations during Ramadan.
- level: In dialysis patients it has been found that low albumin levels can be a marker for not doing well on dialysis.
- rate: The primary outcome was the change in albumin excretion rate.
- solution: Key learning points Human albumin solution has been used in the treatment of critically ill patients for over 50 years.
- testing: It is certainly the practice in our lupus clinics at St Thomas ' to give patients their own albumin testing sticks.
Noun used with modifier
- serum: Most patients with advanced disease will have a low serum albumin.
- plasma: It is extensively bound to plasma albumin ( 97 % ).
- urine: In this study, unlike the Saskatchewan study, urine albumin was not related to U intake.
- protein: A diagnosis is made by measuring the amount of the protein albumin in the urine.
- egg: Egg albumin is similar to the lactalbumin found in milk.
- blood: When measuring blood albumin it is important to monitor the hydration status of the patient as this will affect interpretation.
Browse dictionary entries near albumin
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- ‹ albite
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- ‹ albino
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