#album

• Album — A book with blank pages (white or cardboard), intended for keeping and displaying a collection of photographs, stamps, art reproductions, autographs, or verses; a large-scale editorial work reproducing thematic images or artworks; a collection of musical tracks released together on a physical or digital medium.
• Whitewashing — A parallel regional form or dialectal contamination for albineală or albeață; the act of whitening walls or fabrics; a thin, irregular coat of whitewash or lime applied empirically to a surface; a pale facial tint.
• Albumen — A nutritive organic substance (endosperm) surrounding the embryo in the seed of certain higher plants; the egg white of a bird or reptile, considered as a primary protein-rich nutrient medium for embryonic development.
• Albumin — An obsolete orthographical variant or raw loanword sometimes used in vintage medical texts for albumin; a water-soluble and salt-soluble protein playing an essential role in maintaining the colloid osmotic pressure of blood.
• Albumin — A macromolecular protein soluble in water and dilute salt solutions, coagulable by heat, present in large quantities in blood plasma, lymph, egg white, and some plant seeds, playing an essential role in maintaining osmotic pressure and transporting nutrients.
• Albuminate — A chemical compound, salt, or molecular combination resulting from the reaction of an albumin-class protein with a base, an oxide, or a heavy metal; a complex organic substance used historically in pharmacology or dyeing due to its structural binding properties.
• Albuminemia — The presence and concentration of albumin in the blood plasma; a clinical laboratory test used for the quantitative determination of this protein fraction, serving as a fundamental indicator of nutritional status, liver synthesis function, and kidney glomerular permeability.
• Albumino- — A prefixoid or primary element of learned composition utilized in international scientific terminology to indicate a structural connection to, presence of, or derivation from an albumin or soluble macromolecular protein.
• Albuminocholia — A rare pathological condition characterized by the presence or excretion of albumin in the bile secretion; a dysfunctional state within the bile ducts or liver parenchyma leading to an altered biochemical composition of bile through the infiltration of macromolecular protein fractions.
• Albuminogenous — Producing, generating, or favoring the formation of albumin; a substance, tissue, or physiological factor responsible for the synthesis or secretion of albumins in the organism; having the structural capacity to stimulate plasma protein production.
• Albuminoid — Resembling albumin or possessing similar properties; an old term given to scleroproteins, a class of insoluble proteins with a structural and supportive role in the organism (such as keratin, collagen, or elastin), found in connective tissues, bones, nails, and hair strands.
• Albuminolysis — The chemical or enzymatic process of cleavage, decomposition, or hydrolytic degradation of albumins and other protein molecules into simpler compounds, such as peptones, peptides, and amino acids; proteolysis applied to albumins.
• Albuminometry — A laboratory method or technique used for the quantitative determination of albumin concentration within a biological fluid, especially in urine or blood serum, serving as an essential parameter in diagnosing renal or hepatic disorders.
• Albuminometer — A laboratory apparatus, typically in the form of a graduated glass tube (such as the Esbach type), used for the quantitative measurement of albumin dissolved in an organic fluid by evaluating the volume of precipitate formed.
• Albuminones — A name attributed in older biochemical literature to intermediate proteinaceous products, similar to peptones, resulting during the initial phases of the hydrolysis or enzymatic digestion of albumins.
• Albuminorrhagia — The presence and quantitative concentration of albumin or total proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); a diagnostic test used in neurology, whose increased value (hyperalbuminorrhagia) indicates an impairment of the blood-brain barrier.
• Albumin reaction — A clinical or biochemical laboratory test used for the qualitative or quantitative detection of the presence of albumins or other macromolecular protein fractions within a biological fluid (such as urine, serum, or cerebrospinal fluid) by inducing a specific precipitation, turbidity, or coloration reaction.
• Albuminous — Containing albumin, of the nature of albumin, or rich in soluble proteins; pertaining to tissues, biological fluids, or seeds of higher plants that incorporate a significant amount of nourishing protein endosperm.
• Albuminuric — Pertaining to albuminuria or characterized by the presence of albumin in the urine; a person suffering from a pathological excretion of proteins through the urinary tract. As an adjective, it describes clinical manifestations, biological samples, or treatments associated with this renal dysfunction.
• Albuminuria — A pathological condition manifested by the abnormal presence or excretion of albumin in the urine, serving as a major clinical indicator of damage to or increased permeability of the kidneys' filtering membrane (nephrotic syndrome, diabetic, or hypertensive nephropathy).