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 Thomas Jefferson Ritter
To completely peptonize the milk, two hours are required.
From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler
No, if it is peptonized for only ten minutes, but if it is fully peptonized the milk has a bitter taste.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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
Drinks.—Fresh milk, cool, warm, or peptonized, cocoa, chocolate, buttermilk, pure water, tea, coffee, panopepton.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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
If it disagrees, it should be modified or peptonized to suit the condition.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
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
In milk there is a soluble ferment material or enzyme which has the power of peptonizing proteids.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder
The pyloric end of the stomach exhibits strong peptonizing powers and much of the hydrolysis of protein takes place here.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
Sometimes peptonizing the food for a short time will do.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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 Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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