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Trypsin

noun
1.
An enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units.



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... passed into the first portion of the small intestine, called the duodenum. Here it meets with the pancreatic juice, which like the gastric juice attacks proteids, but even more energetically, and only in an alkaline media. The proteolitic ferment is called trypsin. The pancreatic, the most important of the digestive fluids, contains other ferments; one called amylopsin, takes up the digestion of any remaining or imperfectly converted starch left from the salivary digestion. Amylopsin is much more powerful and rapid than the ptyalin of the saliva, especially ...
— The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition • A. W. Duncan


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