Usually means: Protein-digesting enzyme in stomach.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. pepsin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pepsin: Merriam-Webster
  3. pepsin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pepsin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pepsin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pepsin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pepsin, pepsin: Wordnik
  8. pepsin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pepsin: Wiktionary
  10. pepsin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pepsin (pepsine): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pepsin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pepsin: Dictionary.com
  14. Pepsin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pepsin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pepsin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pepsin: Rhymezone
  18. Pepsin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pepsin: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pepsin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. pepsin: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pepsin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pepsin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. pepsin: Natural Health glossary
  4. Pepsin: Merck Manuals
  5. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. pepsin: Medical dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  (biochemistry) A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.

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