Definitions for globulin

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globulin glob·u·lin

Spelling: [glob-yuh-lin]

IPA: /ˈglɒb yə lɪn/

Globulin is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in globulin (bgillnou).

Definitions for globulin

noun

1. any of a group of proteins, as myosin, occurring in plant and animal tissue, insoluble in pure water but soluble in dilute salt solutions and coagulable by heat.
2. any of several groups of blood plasma proteins, divided into fractions, as alpha, beta, or gamma globulin, depending on electrophoretic mobility.

Origin of globulin

First recorded in 1825-35; globule + -in²

Examples for globulin

The other globulin, serum-globulin, is not coagulated until 75C.

globulin has been reported by Hellmich in an undetermined bacterium, but is certainly not commonly found.

Paraglobulin, par-a-glob′ū-lin, n. a globulin found in blood-serum, fibrino-plastin.

The globulin in the body could not remain in solution if there were not always present a small quantity of salt in the blood.

Other forms of protein are globulin and myosin, which form the actual muscle-substance.