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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In immunity, a specific precipitin corresponding to peptones.
  • noun One of the products of the digestion of proteids by the pancreatic fluid; one of the peptones into which an albuminoid body is resolved by the action of pepsin or tripsin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol. Chem.) A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

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

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anti- +‎ peptone

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