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zymogen |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Zymogen \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.
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