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Definition of Zymogin
Zym"o*gen (?), n. [Zyme + -
gen.] (Physiol. Chem.) A mother substance, or
antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such
substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal
changes give rise to a ferment.
The pancreas contains but little ready-made ferment,
though there is present in it a body, zymogen, which gives
birth to the ferment. Foster.
Zym"o*gen (?), n. [Zyme + -
gen.] (Physiol. Chem.) A mother substance, or
antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such
substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal
changes give rise to a ferment.
The pancreas contains but little ready-made ferment,
though there is present in it a body, zymogen, which gives
birth to the ferment. Foster.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (Physiol. Chem.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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