Renninogen
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Synonym of prochymosin. obsolete, uncountable
"In cases where the acidity of the gastric contents is low, and also the ferment activity, I have found that frequently most of the ferment is present as renninogen and not as rennin."
Synonyms
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More examples"In cases where the acidity of the gastric contents is low, and also the ferment activity, I have found that frequently most of the ferment is present as renninogen and not as rennin."
Etymology
From rennin + -o- + -gen.
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