Crossword-Solution: PAPAIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Papain | n. | A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America. |
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| PAPAIN | anagram | APPIAN |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PAPAIN”
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| ENZYME used to tenderise/tenderize meat | 1 answer |
| MEAT tenderiser/tenderizer, enzyme in | 1 answer |
| enzyme in the unripe fruit of the papaya | 1 answer |
| meat tenderiser | 1 answer |
| MEAT tenderiser/tenderizer | 2 answers |
| enzyme | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAPAIN (5)
The active principle of the juice known as papain, said to be capable of digesting two hundred times its weight of fibrine, is used for many disorders and ailments, from dyspepsia to ringworm and ichthyosis or fish-skin disease.
Several writers claim good results with glycerole of papain, pricking it in in the same manner as in tattooing.
The natives use the cold infusion of the leaves to wash clothes spotted with blood and the spots disappear rapidly by virtue of the ferment papain which digests the fibrin.
Before proceeding further it is desirable to give a description of papain, a digestive ferment which exists throughout the whole plant, fruit, trunk, leaves and petioles; it is contained in the milky juice which exudes from all these parts when cut.
Peckolt gives the following as the composition of the juice: A substance analogous to caoutchouc 4.525 Awa 2.424 Soft resin 0.110 Brown resin 2.776 Albuminoids 0.006 Papayotin (Papain of Wurtz) 1.059 Extractive matter 5.303 Malic acid 0.443 Peptic material and salts 7.100 Water 74.971 The milky juice is neutral and coagulates rapidly, separating in two parts: a kind of insoluble pulp and a limpid colorless serum.