Definition of Amylolytic

1. Adjective. Of or related to the process of amylolysis.

Partainyms: Amylolysis
Derivative terms: Amylolysis

Definition of Amylolytic

1. a. Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment.

Definition of Amylolytic

1. Adjective. (biochemistry) Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Amylolytic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Amylolytic

1. Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. Origin: Gr. Starch + solvent; to dissolve. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amylolytic

amyloid protein saa
amyloid tumour
amyloidal
amyloidogenesis
amyloidogenic
amyloidogenic glycoprotein
amyloidoses
amyloidosis
amyloidosis: bone manifestations
amyloidosis: gastrointestinal manifestations
amyloidosis cutis
amyloidosis of multiple myeloma
amyloidotic
amyloids
amylolysis
amylolytic (current term)
amylomaltase
amylopectin
amylopectin 6-glucanohydrolase
amylopectin synthase
amylopectinosis
amylopectins
amylophagia
amyloplast
amyloplasts
amylopsin
amylopsins
amylopullulanase
amylorrhoea
amylose

Literary usage of Amylolytic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"The conversion of starch into sugar, and this we may speak of as the amylolytic action of saliva, will go on at the ordinary temperature of the atmosphere. ..."

2. Studies in Physiological Chemistry: Being Reprints of the More Important by Russell Henry Chittenden (1901)
"Further, the well-known sensitiveness of the amylolytic enzyme to changes of reaction suggests also the possibility of fluctuations in amylolytic power ..."

3. A Text-book of human physiology by Robert Tigerstedt, John R Murlin (1906)
"That they are actually different enzymes probably follows from the fact that the amylolytic, proteolytic and lipolytic effects either of the secretion or of ..."

4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1889)
"NOTE ON AN amylolytic FERMENT FOUND IN THE GASTRIC MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF THE PIG. ... It, too, had ample amylolytic properties, which it lost after the fluid ..."

5. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"These are apparently related to the amylolytic ferments, and are to a certain extent identical with them. They invert the disaccharides to monosaccharides, ..."

6. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"... amylolytic ferment called Ptyalin. T. of small Intee'tlne. Fermentative changea take place in the small intestine, but the special ferment thereof 1ms ..."

7. Studies from the Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry: Shef-field by Yale University, R H Chittenden, Sheffield Scientific School (1887)
"INFLUENCE OP URANIUM SALTS ON THE amylolytic ACTION OF SALIVA AND THE ... The method employed in determining the extent of amylolytic action was much the ..."

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