Pepsin

Language: English

Pronunciation: pep-sin

Part of Speech: noun

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A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.

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"an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones"

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