Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of peptonizing, or converting into peptones.
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Examples
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-- Complete peptonization of milk renders the milk bitter.
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-- The object of peptonization of milk is partly or wholly to digest the casein, or curd, of the milk before feeding.
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He has merely started the process of peptonization and digestion for us, which saves us trouble.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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This chemical phenomenon is a breaking-down process that is analogous to the peptonization of proteids, although in addition to the peptones and albumoses characteristic of peptic digestion, amido-acids and ammonia are to be found.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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The curd usually diminishes in bulk, due to the gradual digestion or peptonization of the casein by proteid-dissolving enzyms (tryptic type) that are also produced by the bacteria causing the change.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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A determination of the nature of the by-products found in maturing cheese indicates that the general character of the ripening change is a peptonization or digestion of the casein.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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As previously shown, the most marked chemical transformation that occurs is that which has to do with the peptonization or breaking down of the casein.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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The container is then placed in a pitcher of water at a temperature of 110°F., which is about as warm as the hand can bear comfortably, and is here left for from ten to twenty minutes if only partial peptonization is desired, or for a couple of hours should it be wished to complete the process.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896
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_ -- It now and then happens that children fail to thrive where all of the precautions heretofore referred to have been strictly adhered to, and under such circumstances good results are frequently secured by subjecting the milk to a process known as _peptonization_.
Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene 1896
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