FIBRIN

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 12

A term applied by chemists to the muscular fibre when cleansed by washing from all adhering impurities;or to the coagulum of the blood when the whole of the colouring matter is washed out of it. It is white, insipid, and inodorous; its ultimate elements are, according to Guy Lu ac and The nard, Carbon 53-36 Hydrogen 7-02 Nitrogen. 19-93 Oxygen 1909 It is merely a form of albumen. [s. 466]