Back to Top Why the Test Is Performed. This test can help determine if a patient has liver disease or kidney disease, or if the body is not absorbing enough protein. Albumin helps move many small molecules through the blood, including bilirubin, calcium, progesterone, and medications.ecreased blood albumin levels may occur when your body does not get or absorb enough nutrients, such as: 1  After weight-loss surgery. 2  Crohn's disease. 3  Low-protein diets. 4  Sprue. 5  Whipple's disease.
A negative number is a number $x$ such that $x+y=0$ for some positive number $y$. In other words, a negative number is an object whose sum with some positive number equals the additive identity. A similar approach can be used to define other mathematical objects: $ 1 x=0$ is an object such that $a+x=a$. $ 2 x=\frac{1}{a}$ is an object such that $xa=1$.
Full Definition of NEGATIVE. 1. 2. a: lacking positive qualities; especially: disagreeable. 3. 4. a: being, relating to, or charged with electricity of which the electron is the elementary unit (2) : being the electron-emitting electrode of an electron tube.