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English
Etymology
From saccharinize + -ation.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˌsækɹɪnɪˈzeɪʃən/
Noun
saccharinization (uncountable)
- (rare) The act or process of saccharinizing; as, especially, the lysis of starch (polysaccharides) into sugars (oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides), mainly as catalyzed by amylases.
1896 December 12, D.S. Maddox, “The value of diastase in buccal and intestinal dyspepsia”, in Medical Review, volume 34, number 24, St. Louis Medical Review Association, retrieved 2022-02-17, page 416:Intestinal indigestion may, in some cases, be the result of incomplete digestion of albuminoids, or of fats; but in the vast majority of instances it is due to a diminution of the pancreatic secretions, whose chief function is the saccharinization of the starchy elements of the food.
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