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Try Tryp Trypa Trypanosomiasis Trypsin


~ TRY       from lat TRITUS TERERE TRITATRE = TO GRIND or
            THRESH GRAIN LIKE CORN
            id+ TO ATTEMPT or TO ELABORATE   sug> LABOR
~ TRYP~     prefix also for TREP~ or ideas "RUB or HOLE"
            see> TREPANATION
~ TRYPA     from gr TRYPE = HOLE       see> TRIPE
            biol>  in ZOOLOGY TRYPANOZOMA = BORER
                   sp TRIPA = INTESTINE or ENTRAIL
~ TRYPANOSOMIASIS  biol> med> TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC DISEASES
                              AFFECTING HUMAN AND ANIMAL
     POPULATIONS DUE TO SPIRAL LIKE MICROORGANISMS
     TRANSMITED BY INSECT VECTORS
     hx> TRYPONOSOMIASIS HAS DECIMATED AFRICAN
         AND SOUTH AMERICAN HUMAN POPULATIONS ALONG
     WITH A VARIETY OF OTHER MAMMALS
            see> CHAGAS  see> TREPANATION  see> TREPHINE
~ TRYPSIN   from TRIBEIN = TO RUB          see> THRUST
            must consider see> TRISMUS     sug> TETANUS
            biol> A DIGESTIVE ENZYME       sug> CATALYST
  RELEASED BY THE PANCREAS                 see> ENZYME
  IT CLEAVES PEPTIDE BONDS                 sug> PROTEIN
  med> TRYPSIN IN THE TRIPES PLUS          sug> LYSIS
       THE MOTION OF INTESTINES            sug> GUT
  RUBS MIXES AND DIGESTS                   sug> GLUTEN
  PROTEIN AND OTHER FOODS                  sug> PROTEUS
  hx> THE GERMAN PHYSIOLOGIST W F KUHNE [#]
      RUBBED PANCREAS GLANDS WITH GLICERINE AND
  IN 1848 OBTAINED A PEPSIN HE CALLED
  TRYPSIN FOR THE FACT HE HAD "TO RUB"
  see> TREPONEMA  see> TREPHINE  see> TREPANATION

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