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One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.

The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. Kent.

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.

d (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.

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

The science of digestion.

To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.

Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

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.

discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend. When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory. T. Burnet.

The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws. Bacon.

ine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.

To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.

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

into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.

Anat.), the last curve of the colon before it terminates in the rectum. See Illust. under Digestive. -- Sigmoid valves. (Anat.) See Semilunar valves, under Semilunar.

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