phlorizinize

English

Etymology

From phlorizin +‎ -ize.

Verb

phlorizinize (third-person singular simple present phlorizinizes, present participle phlorizinizing, simple past and past participle phlorizinized)

1. To treat with phlorizin.
   • 1935, Journal of Cellular and Comparative Physiology, volume 5, page 304:

     For the study of glucose excretion fish were phlorizinized by injecting 300 to 400 mg. […]

   • 1951, Edward Herman Strisower, The Conversion in Vivo of Fat to Carbohydrate and Tracer Equations Characterizing Linked Metabolic Systems, page 1:

     He concluded from the high D/N ratios and from the decreased nitrogen elimination on phlorizinizing that excreted sugar could not be derived entirely from protein , and that fat must therefore also be considered a source.

   • 1964, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, page 3249:

     Homer Smith points out that 100 mg of phlorizin per kilo of body weight injected intravenously is insufficient to completely phlorizinize a man.