"Pepsin" is a word in ENGLISH
An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in
the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united
with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two
together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is
the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of …
Read the complete definitionA diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.
Read the complete definitionA product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic …
Read the complete definitionThe conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.
Read the complete definitionAn insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.
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Read the complete definitionA nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis …
Read the complete definitionAn albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by …
Read the complete definitionThe soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of …
Read the complete definitionCollectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic …
Read the complete definitionAny substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
Read the complete definitionAn enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any …
Read the complete definitionA proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in …
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