pepsin
A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter…A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.
Pepsin
пепси́нpepsín
an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones
Translations
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Origin
From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -in.From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -in.
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Forms
plural: pepsinsWord family
16 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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