A complex protein substance produced from casein through partial digestion or chemical breakdown.
From 'casein' + '-ose' (suffix for carbohydrate or protein compounds). Developed in 19th-century biochemistry when researchers began systematizing protein fragments.
Caseose was an important discovery for understanding protein digestion, but the term mostly disappeared from modern biochemistry as scientists adopted more precise molecular descriptions.
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