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▪ I. proteid1 Chem.|ˈprəʊtiːɪd|
Also proteide.
[f. protein: see -id4.]
A term applied in England from 1871 to the class of organic compounds previously known as ‘protein bodies’ or ‘substances’ (Ger. proteïn-stoffe), and now by preference called ‘proteins’: see protein, and Note there.
1871Watts tr. Gmelin's Handbk. Chem. XVIII. 252 The term proteides is here used in the comprehensive sense, which permits the grouping together of the non-crystallisable nitrogenous animal and vegetable substances possessing reactions in common. 1872― Genl. Index of Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 1841–72, Proteids. 1872Nicholson Biol. 68 It is a common and often a very convenient practice to speak of the various albuminoid substances of animals or vegetables as ‘proteids’. 1873Watts Fownes' Chem. (ed. 11) 955 Albuminous Principles—Albuminoids or Proteids [ed. 10 Index, Protein]. 1876Foster Phys. i. i. (1879) 14 Proteids..form a large portion of all living bodies and an essential part of all protoplasm. 1891Pall Mall G. 5 Feb. 6/3 Some months ago Mr. Hankin discovered a class of organisms to which he gave the name of ‘Protective Proteids’. These substances..appear to be a sort of natural antiseptic, possessing..the power of destroying the bacilli of anthrax and other maladies. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 810 The work of this accomplished author [Weir Mitchell] on the venom of the rattlesnake, formed the first step in our knowledge of toxic proteids. 1897Willis Flower. Plants I. 207 The first downward step in the decomposition of protoplasm into proteids. 1907Recommendations of Committee in Proc. Physiol. Soc. 26 Jan. p. xviii. 1 The word Proteid—which is used in different senses in this country and in Germany—should be abolished.
b. attrib. and Comb. = protein attrib.
1872Huxley Phys. i. 3 That compound known to chemists as proteid matter. 1878Kingzett Anim. Chem. 159 A man confined to a purely proteid diet must eat a prodigious quantity of it. 1883American VI. 173 The crotaline venom contains three distinct proteid bodies. 1897Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. IX. 130 The more proteid material the body is called upon to metabolize the more likely we are to have an excess of [uric acid, etc.].
▪ II. proteid2 Zool. rare.|ˈprəʊtiːɪd|
[f. mod.L. generic name Prōteus + -id3.]
An amphibian of the family Proteidæ, typified by the genus Proteus (Proteus 3 b). So proteidean |prəʊtiːˈɪdiːən| a., belonging to this group of amphibians. |