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Pepsin

noun
1.
An enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones.





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"Pepsin" Quotes from Famous Books



... of thick pea soup. The food then enters the smaller intestine, at the beginning of which the juices from the pancreas are added. The pancreas is a gland which furnishes a strongly alkaline liquid neutralizing the acid of the gastric juice, so that the gastric agent, pepsin, loses its power. From this gland comes a material which can act on all kinds of food and which is by far the most ...
— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden


Words linked to "Pepsin" :   enzyme, peptic, gastric juice, gastric acid


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