zymogenhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zymogen_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezymogen, n.
First published 1921; not fully revised

zymogennoun

Biochemistry.
  1. 1877–
    A substance formed in an organism, from which a ferment is produced. Also attributive.
    1. 1877
      A pancreas taken fresh from the body..contains but little ready made ferment, though there is present in it a body which, by some kind of decomposition, gives birth to the ferment... To this body, the mother of the ferment, Heidenhain has given the name of Zymogen.
      M. Foster, Text Book of Physiology ii. i. 188
    2. 1896
      Zymogen granules.
      E. B. Wilson, Cell 288
    3. 1897
      A zymogen is the antecedent of the ferment of the secretion—pepsinogen, trypsinogen, for example.
      T. C. Allbutt et al., System of Medicine vol. III. 306

zymogen, n. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.

zymogen, n. was last modified in December 2024.