albumen (noun)

1590s, "white of an egg," from Latin albumen (ovi) "white (of an egg)," literally "whiteness," from the neuter of albus "white" (see alb). The organic substance (which exists nearly pure in egg whites) so called from 1800, also known as albumin (1869, from French albumine).

albumin (noun)

chemical substance named for the Latin word for "the whites of eggs," where it occurs naturally, 1869; see albumen.

albumin (physiology)

Albumin is the most abundant circulating protein found in plasma. It represents half of the plasma's total protein content (3.5 g/dL to 5 g/dL) in healthy human patients. Liver hepatocytes synthesize albumin and rapidly excrete it into the bloodstream at about 10g to 15g per day. Very little albumin is stored in the liver, and most of it gets rapidly excreted into the bloodstream.