pepsinhydrochloric acid

English

Etymology

pepsin +‎ hydrochloric acid

Noun

pepsinhydrochloric acid (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry, archaic) A hypothetical acid supposed to be formed when pepsin and dilute hydrochloric acid are mixed together.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pepsinhydrochloric acid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)