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Etymology edit

pro- +‎ peptone

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propeptone (countable and uncountable, plural propeptones)

  1. (biochemistry) A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for propeptone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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