A disease or medical condition characterized by an abnormal amount of albumin in the blood or by albumin appearing in body secretions where it shouldn't be.
From Latin 'albumen' (white of egg) + Greek '-osis' (condition of), literally 'albumin condition.' This nosological term gained currency in 19th-century clinical medicine.
Doctors created this word to describe a symptom they saw repeatedly—unusual protein levels—but later realized it was usually a sign of kidney disease rather than its own condition.
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