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单词 peptonize
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peptonizev.

Brit. /ˈpɛptənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈpɛptəˌnaɪz/
Forms: 1800s– peptonise, 1800s– peptonize.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: peptone n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < peptone n. + -ize suffix. Compare French peptoniser (1884). Compare slightly earlier peptonized adj.
transitive. To make (a protein) soluble by partial predigestion or hydrolysis, esp. in the treatment of food. Also figurative: to simplify so as to make easily comprehensible (now rare).
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1880 Science 4 Sept. 117/2 The juice of the Carica papaya..contains a pepsin-like substance capable of peptonizing fibrin completely.
1880 Nature 23 Dec. 169/1 Preparation of artificially-digested food, peptonised materials.
1895 Athenæum 21 Sept. 392/1 Wholesome food to the apparently large public which likes its science peptonized.
1925 E. F. Benson in Storyteller June 383/1 Not less diligently did he learn the art of peptonizing his thoughts for the audience; it would never do..to make them think.
1976 Amer. Jrnl. Vet. Res. 37 803 176 nonhemolytic isolates did not peptonize litmus milk.
2000 Soil Biol. & Biochem. 32 1281 Similar results were obtained when the protein was peptonized prior to polymerization.

Derivatives

peptonizer n. Obsolete rare a peptonizing agent (in quot. figurative).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for indigestion
stomachical1657
antacid1699
peptic1703
pepastic1706
gripe water1728
stomachic1733
concoctor1764
griper1766
stomatic1842
gripe mixture1891
peptonizer1893
1893 National Observer 5 Aug. 303/1 A good comedy is the best of peptonisers.
ˈpeptonizing adj. that causes peptonization.
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1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 17/2 Peptonising apparatus.
1942 Brit. Red Cross Soc. Cookery & Catering Man. (ed. 4) vi. 75 In disease..it is necessary to nourish and restore the body by..adding a peptonizing agent which acts upon the starch before it is taken.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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