Word Meanings - PROTEOLYTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• PROTEOLYTIC
  Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones. " The proteolytic ferment of the pancreas." Foster.
• FERMENTABLE
  Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• FERMENT
  fervimentum, fr. fervere to be boiling hot, boil, ferment: cf. F. 1. That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer. Note: Ferments are of two kinds: Formed or organized ferments. Unorganized or structureless ferments. The
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• FERMENTATION
  1. The process of undergoing an effervescent change, as by the action of yeast; in a wider sense , the transformation of an organic substance into new compounds by the action of a ferment, either formed or unorganized. It differs in kind according
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• DIFFUSIBLE
  Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis. (more info) 1. Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• FERMENTATION THEORY
  The theory which likens the course of certain diseases (esp. infectious diseases) to the process of fermentation, and attributes them to the organized ferments in the body. It does not differ materially from the accepted germ theory .
• PROTEIDEA
  An order of aquatic amphibians having prominent external gills and four legs. It includes Proteus and Menobranchus . Called also Proteoidea, and Proteida.
• DIFFUSIBLENESS
  Diffusibility.
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• PANCREAS
  The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part
• FOSTERLING
  A foster child.
• CONVERTIBLENESS
  The state of being convertible; convertibility.
• CONVERTER
  A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
• MATTERY
  1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
• FERMENTAL
  Fermentative.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• INSOLUBLENESS
  The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility. Boyle.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• IRRESOLUBLENESS
  The state or quality of being irresoluble; insolubility.
• INSOLUBLE
  loosed: cf. F. insoluble. See In- not, and Soluble, and cf. 1. Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water. 2. Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question,
• DISSOLUBLE
  1. Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward. 2. Capable of being disunited.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• INCONVERTIBLY
  In an inconvertible manner.
• RE-FERMENT
  To ferment, or cause to ferment, again. Blackmore.
• DEFERMENT
  The act of delaying; postponement. My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.