papain
Americannoun
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Biochemistry. a proteolytic enzyme found in the fruit of the papaya tree, Carica papaya.
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Pharmacology. a commercial preparation of this used as a meat tenderizer and in medicine as a digestant.
noun
Etymology
Origin of papain
Example Sentences
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For example, pineapple have a protease called bromelain, kiwifruit has actinidin and papaya have papain.
From US News ● Apr. 27, 2016
If children cried for Castoria in those days, they kicked papain the shins for Buster Brown and his sweetheart, Mary Jane, and his dog, Tige.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smith sold his patent rights to Baxter Travenol Laboratories of Deerfield, Ill., which extracted from papain another enzyme, chymopapain, that was more potent and less toxic.
From Time Magazine Archive
If papain had the same effect on human slipped discs, he reasoned, they would shrink back into place.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ripe fruit is edible and its taste quite agreeable; in some of the Malay Islands it is given for dysentery, but it must be remembered that the ripe fruit does not contain papain.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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