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ning such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.

An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.

The science of digestion.

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.

The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.

One of a class of soluble products formed in the digestion of proteids with gastric and pancreatic juice, and also by the hydrolytic action of boiling dilute acids on proteids. Proteoses are divided into the two groups, the primary and secondary proteoses.

The production of blood; the conversion of the products of digestion into blood; hematosis.

ing boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.

Shak. Stomach staggers (Far.), distention of the stomach with food or gas, resulting in indigestion, frequently in death.

re alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.

the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

e quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative. [Written als…

iety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion. Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

s, sometimes lodge in it, causing serious, or even fatal, inflammation. See Illust. under Digestion.

actions of the body on which life is directly dependent, as the circulation of the blood, digestion, etc. -- Vital principle, an immaterial force, to which the functions peculiar to living beings are ascribed. -- Vital statistics, statistics respecting the duration of life, and the circumstances affecting its duratio…

nol.), vegetable fiber obtained from the poplar and other white woods, and so softened by digestion with a hot solution of alkali that it can be formed into sheet paper, etc. It is now produced on an immense scale. -- Wood quail (Zoöl.), any one of several species of East Indian crested quails belonging to Rollulus an…