PTYALIN
\tˈa͡ɪɐlˌɪn], \tˈaɪɐlˌɪn], \t_ˈaɪ__ɐ_l_ˌɪ_n]\
Definitions of PTYALIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms (6th edition)
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.
By Oddity Software
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By J.H. Kenneth
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-E, t[=i]'a-lin, n. the nitrogenous essential principle of saliva.--v.i. PTY'ALISE, to salivate.--n. PTY'ALISM, salivation.--adj. PTYALOGOG'IC.--ns. PTYAL'OGOGUE, PTYS'MAGOGUE, a medicine which causes salivation. [Gr.,--ptuein, to spit.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: animal diastase, salivary ferment. A soluble amylolytic ferment in saliva. It converts starch to sugar (maltose) by a process of hydrolysis. German writers apply the name to the amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice, which is similar in action, but much more powerful. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe