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zymogenic (medicine)


zymogenic
<biology> Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene.

Capable of producing a definite zymogen or ferment.

<biology> Zymogenic organism, a microorganism, such as the yeast plant of the Bacterium lactis, which sets up certain fermentative processes by which definite chemical products are formed; distinguished from a pathogenic organism. Cf. Micrococcus.

Source: Websters Dictionary


tongue-in-cheek (oh)



adj
a tongue-in-cheek remark is said as a joke, not seriously
::I love that kind of tongue-in-cheek wit.
-- tongue-in-cheek adv
::I think he was talking tongue-in-cheek.