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Enzyme

An unorganized or unformed ferment, in distinction from an organized or living ferment; a soluble, or chemical, ferment. Ptyalin, pepsin, diastase, and rennet are good examples of enzymes.

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Accelerator 76% connected

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

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catalyst 76% connected

A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed

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Protein 76% connected

A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name.

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Complement 76% connected

That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

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Cox 76% connected

A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.

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Papain 76% connected

A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.

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Pepsin 76% connected

An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochl…

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Pepsinogen 76% connected

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily converti…

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Plasmin 76% connected

A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.

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Rennin 76% connected

A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomas…

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Sod 76% connected

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Trypsin 76% connected

A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, an…

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Zymase 76% connected

A soluble ferment, or enzyme. See Enzyme.

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