proximate principle (English, noun)
expansion: proximate principle (plural proximate principles)
Senses:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of substances found ready-formed in animal and vegetable tissues, and separable by chemical analysis, such as albumin, sugar, collagen, fat, etc.
tags: archaic
Forms:
form: proximate principles
tags: plural