muscle serumn.
/ˈmʌsl ˌsɪərəm/, U.S. /ˈməs(ə)l ˌsɪrəm/, /ˈməs(ə)l ˌsərəm/ Now rare.
The fraction of muscle cytoplasm that remains after formation of an actomyosin clot.
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1871 H. Watts tr. L. Gmelin Hand-bk. Chem. XVIII. 267 Muscle-plasma..breaks up into myosin, which is precipitated, and muscle-serum, which remains in solution.
1887 Jrnl. Physiol. 8 183 Muscle-plasma differs from muscle-serum in the same way that blood-plasma differs from blood-serum.
1906 Watts' Dict. Chem. III. 445/2 The three last [sc. myoglobulin, albumin, myo-albumose] remain in the muscle serum.
1937 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 124 138 Dialysed muscle serum has a pH between 5·8 and 6·2.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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