phlorizinize

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verb

To treat with phlorizin.

Scrabble 35

Meanings

verbphlorizinize (third-person singular simple present phlorizinizes, present participle phlorizinizing, simple past and past participle phlorizinized)

present singular third person phlorizinizes · participle present phlorizinizing · participle past phlorizinized · past phlorizinized

  1. To treat with phlorizin.

    For the study of glucose excretion fish were phlorizinized by injecting 300 to 400 mg. […]

    1935, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, volume 5, page 304
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    He concluded from the high D/N ratios and from the decreased nitrogen elimination on phlorizinizing that excreted sugar could not be derived entirely from protein , and that fat must therefore also be considered a source.

    1951, Edward Herman Strisower, The Conversion in Vivo of Fat to Carbohydrate and Tracer Equations Characterizing Linked Metabolic Systems, page 1

    Homer Smith points out that 100 mg of phlorizin per kilo of body weight injected intravenously is insufficient to completely phlorizinize a man.

    1964, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, page 3249

Origin

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