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vitellin
[vi-tel-in, vahy-]
noun
a phosphoprotein in the yolk of eggs.
vitellin
/ ɪˈɛɪ /
noun
biochem a phosphoprotein that is the major protein in egg yolk
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vitellin1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vitellin1
Example Sentences
The debates of our savants, their polemics relative to the Vitellin yolk of the egg of the Arachneida, or the digestive apparatus of the Infusoria, constitute the burning questions which distress us, and which if we had the misfortune to possess a regular press, would not fail to drench our streets in gore.
In animal foods myosin in meat and vitellin, found in the yolk of the egg, and some of the proteids of the blood, are examples of globulins.
The yolk contains all the fatty matter, and this, with a modified form of albumen called vitellin, forms a kind of yellow emulsion.
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