1. water-soluble protein compounds formed during the digestion of proteins by enzymes, intermediate between proteins and peptones
Usage: biochemistry; plural form

Examples

• The laboratory analysis detected proteoses in the digestive fluid sample.
• Proteoses are important intermediates in protein breakdown.
• The enzyme treatment produced various proteoses from the original protein.
• Researchers studied the formation of proteoses during digestion.
• The proteoses were separated using chromatography techniques.
• Different proteoses have varying molecular weights and properties.