amylasen.
Biochem.
An enzyme or organic catalyst which disintegrates starch, present in animals and plants; = diastase n.
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1893 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 64 ii. 587 The dried, as well as the fresh, organism contains an enzyme ‘amylase’, similar to the diastase of malt.
1899 J. R. Green Soluble Ferm. ii. 15 (heading) Diastase (Amylase, Ptyalin).
1910 Practitioner June 823 The hydrolysis is brought about by means of enzymes, such as ptyalin, amylopsin or amylase, lactase and glucase.
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