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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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peptone

(Physiol. Chem.)

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

☞ Unlike antipeptone it is convertible into leucin and tyrosin, by the continued action of pancreatic juice. See

. It is also formed from hemialbumose and albumin by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid.

hemipeptone ‎(plural hemipeptones)

(biochemistry) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter, which (unlike antipeptone) is convertible into leucin and tyrosin by the continued action of pancreatic juice. It is also formed from hemialbumose and albumin by boiling dilute sulphuric acid.