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zymogen


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  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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