Definition of Pepsine

1. pepsin [n -S] - See also: pepsin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pepsine

peppier
peppiest
peppily
peppiness
peppinesses
pepping
peppy
peps
pepsic
pepsin
pepsin a
pepsinate
pepsinated
pepsinates
pepsinating
pepsine (current term)
pepsines
pepsinhydrochloric
pepsiniferous
pepsinogen
pepsinogenous
pepsinogens
pepsins
pepsinuria
pepstatin
pepstatins
peptalk
peptalked
peptalking
peptalks

Literary usage of Pepsine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Slight Ailments, and on Treating Disease by Lionel Smith Beale (1896)
"of pepsine and its Uses.—pepsine has been introduced into medicine for some ... If pepsine were really useless, like hundreds of other things which have ..."

2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1876)
"It was presumed that the quantities of peptones passing through these septa would give the relative powers of the several samples of pepsine. ..."

3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1857)
"Lactic Acid versus pepsine. By Dr. W. STEVENS SQUIRE, London.—[The following experiments were performed by the author in consequence of Dr. O'Connor's ..."

4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1869)
"In 1854, after many experiments, pepsine was obtained in a pure state by M. ... pepsine was honoured with two Reports at the Academy of Medicine, Paris, ..."

5. Diseases of the Stomach by Ismar Boas (1907)
"Pepsinogen and pepsine. pepsine converts albuminoid bodies, in the presence of free hydrochloric acid, into peptones, and deprives gelatine of its property ..."

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