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Pepsin

//ˈpɛpsɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones wordnet

Etymology

From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -in.

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