pepsin
See also: Pepsin
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Etymology edit
From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -in.
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pepsin (countable and uncountable, plural pepsins)
- (biochemistry) A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.
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digestive enzyme
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Czech edit
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pepsin m inan
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This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Serbo-Croatian edit
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pèpsīn m (Cyrillic spelling пѐпсӣн)
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pepsin n