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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 zy·mo·gen /ˈzaɪməʤən/ 名詞
 酶原, 前酵素, 酵素母質;
 同 proenzyme

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 zy·mo·gen /ˈzaɪməʤən/ 名詞
 醱酵菌

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Zym·o·gen n.  Physiol. Chem. A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment.
    The pancreas contains but little ready-made ferment, though there is present in it a body, zymogen, which gives birth to the ferment.   --Foster.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 zymogen
      n : any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of
          enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis
          of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become
          active [syn: proenzyme]