vitellin

Lecithin is also known as lecithol, vitellin, kelecin, and granulestin.

In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.

Although Argyrol is used as a synonym in chemical description also as silver vitellin and mild silver protein, Barnes insisted to differentiate Argyrol was not the same.

Le Corps vitellin de Balbiani dans l'oeuf des vertébrés (1893)-- The body of Balbiani yolk in the egg of vertebrates.

"Ha' tu veduto un mio vitellin bianco" on La Favola di Orfeo 1494, reconstruction of a Florentine entertainment, by Huelgas Ensemble, dir.

In 1906, Phoebus Levene at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research identified phosphate in the protein vitellin (phosvitin), and by 1933 had detected phosphoserine in casein, with Fritz Lipmann.