peptonize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.
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to hydrolyze or dissolve by a proteolytic enzyme, as pepsin.
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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 Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
To completely peptonize the milk, two hours are required.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
In these cases the casein was not peptonized, because these strong disinfectants destroyed the activity of the enzyms as well as the bacteria.
From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by Russell, H. L. (Harry Luman)
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 Holt, L. Emmett
When completely peptonized it is good in attacks of acute indigestion.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
If the vomiting be so severe as to affect nutrition, the child should be sustained by peptonized milk, soup, or gruel, given by the bowel.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Should the whole day's supply be peptonized at once, or each bottle separately just before the feeding?
From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by Holt, L. Emmett
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
None, if peptonizing is continued for only ten minutes, but at the end of twenty minutes it begins to be bitter, when the process of digestion has gone further.
From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by Holt, L. Emmett
Those which convert the proteids into soluble form, as the peptonizing ferments, have no action upon the carbohydrates.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry
The contents of one of Fairchild's peptonizing tubes may be used in place of the pancreas extract.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
This group of bacteria is, under ordinary conditions, unable to liquefy gelatin, or digest milk, or, in fact, to exert, under ordinary conditions, any proteolytic or peptonizing properties.
From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by Russell, H. L. (Harry Luman)
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