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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.

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.

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

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

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

e substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

tinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.

some time with dilute sulphuric acid. It is apparently identical with antialbumid and dyspeptone.

A substance convertible into peptone.

Capable of yielding, or being converted into, peptone.

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

A substance related to peptone.

The presence of peptone, or a peptonelike body, in the urine.

A toxic alkaloid found occasionally associated with the peptones formed from fibrin by pepsinhydrochloric acid.

Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones. " The proteolytic ferment of the pancreas." Foster.