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any plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- called also albuminate.…

A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. Miller.

s having an openc-hain structure. The aliphatic compounds thus include not only the fatty acids and other derivatives of the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

s ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.

l and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the f…

Same as Cacodylic acid.

Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois. Allantoic acid. (Chem.) See Allantoin.

s substance found in the allantoic liquid of the fetal calf; -- formerly called allantoic acid and amniotic acid.

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

Of or pertaining to alloxan; -- applied to an acid obtained by the action of soluble alkalies on alloxan.

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

A crystalline derivative of salicylic acid, used as an antiseptic and antirheumatic.

A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid produced by digesting ambrein in nitric acid.

Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid. Amic acid (Chem.), one of a class of nitrogenized acids somewhat resembling amides.

A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical. Acid amide, a neutral compound formed by the substitution of the amido group for hydroxyl in an acid.

Containing, or derived from, amidogen. Amido acid, an acid in which a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by the amido group. The amido acids are both basic and acid. -- Amido group, amidogen, NH2.

he amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac. Amniotic acid. (Chem.) [R.] See Allantoin.