[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Any of a class of polypeptides (proteoses) formed by the partial digestion of a protein or (specifically) of an albumin. Compare globulose, albuminose.


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Origin:
late 19th century. From German Albumose from Album- (in Albumin) + -ose. Earlier in English in prefixed forms denoting distinct types, as anti-albumose and hemialbumose (reflecting coinages in Kühne's 1877 paper)