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ting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb. Inhibitory nerves (Physiol.), those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act already in progress.…

To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.

and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose.

An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.

c digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.

ed proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals.…

ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.

ubstances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.

One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.

. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pit of the stomach (Anat.), the depression on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. -- Pit saw (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of the latter is often in…

A combining form from Gr. a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.

One of the Polygastrica. [Obs.]

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

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 hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty.

e region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes.

et ferment (Physiol. Chem.), a ferment, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling milk. The ferment presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble to an insoluble form. -- Rennet stomach (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum, of r…

Any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.

al cord and pass forward into the skull, from which they emerge in company with the pneumogastrics. -- Spinal column, the backbone, or connected series or vertebræ which forms the axis of the vertebrate skeleton; the spine; rachis; vertebral column. -- Spinal cord, the great nervous cord extending backward from the b…