peptonize

American  

[pep-tuh-nahyz] / ˈpɛp təˌnaɪz /

especially British, peptonise

verb (used with object)

peptonized, peptonizing

1. to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.

2. to hydrolyze or dissolve by a proteolytic enzyme, as pepsin.

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peptonize British  

/ ˈpɛptəˌnaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to hydrolyse (a protein) to peptones by enzymic action, esp by pepsin or pancreatic extract

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Other Word Forms

• peptonization
  noun
• peptonizer
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of peptonize

First recorded in 1875–80; peptone + -ize

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Example Sentences

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peptonize peptonized peptonizing

Is it better to peptonize the whole day's supply, or each bottle separately just before feeding?

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

To completely peptonize the milk, two hours are required.

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

He epitomized and peptonized his knowledge on all subjects to suit her intellectual digestion.

From The Westerners by Stewart Edward White

How is the bitter taste avoided in partially peptonized milk?

From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by L. Emmett Holt

In accordance with the present popular ideas, both in and out of the profession, this patient tells me she has tried a great variety of foods, peptonized, sterilized, and predigested, but all to no purpose.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

Buttermilk also is used in cases of protein indigestion, as is Eiweissmilch and peptonized milk.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

Peptonized Milk Punch.—In the usual milk punch recipes the specially peptonized milk may be used in place of ordinary milk.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

As Author William Bolitho once wrote, adventure's "adepts are rarely chaste, or merciful, or even law-abiding at all, and any moral peptonizing, or sugaring, takes out the interest, with the truth, of their lives."

From Time Magazine Archive

The peptonizing action does not go on uniformly throughout the cheese, but is hastened by the development of molds and bacteria on the outside that exert a solvent action on the casein.

From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell

The milk may be peptonized if necessary, using ½ tube of Fairchild’s peptonizing powder.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

If the latter disturbs the digestion reduce the amount temporarily, or add one-half the contents of a tube of peptonizing powder, or one-quarter of a glass of limewater.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit

By the action of a peptonizing powder which is composed of a digestive agent known as the extractum pancreatis and bicarbonate of soda, which is added to the plain or diluted milk.

From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by L. Emmett Holt

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