peptide

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of a class of organic compounds consisting of various numbers of amino acids in which the amine of one is reacted with the carboxylic acid of the next to form an amide bond. Such molecules joined into polypeptides and proteins constitute crucial components of living organisms.
    — When it’s digested, its long amino-acid chains are first broken down into smaller fragments, or peptides. It turns out that many hormones and drugs are also peptides, and a number of casein peptides do affect the body in hormone-like ways.
  2. The peptide bond itself.
  3. Performance-enhancing drugs that contain such molecules, especially particular ones (often synthetically produced) that are claimed by their sellers to bestow amazing health benefits. euphemistic,usually
    — Please be patient with me, I get hundreds of emails a day in regards to anything fitness related including diet, recipes, eating schedules, work out routines, recommending what peptides to take for what and so on.

词形变化

peptides plural

词汇关系

近义词
相关词

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-ye-
Proto-Hellenic *péťťō
Ancient Greek πέσσω (péssō)bf.
Ancient Greek πέπτω (péptō)
Ancient Greek πεπτόν (peptón)der.
German Peptonbor.
English peptone
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide

German Pepton

Latin -idusder.
German -id
German Peptidbor.
English peptide
From peptone, partially hydrolyzed protein, or German Peptid, from German Pepton, from Ancient Greek πεπτόν (peptón, “cooked, digested”) derived from πέπτω (péptō, “soften, ripen, boil, cook, bake, digest”).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary