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erepsin

/ (ɪˈrɛpsɪn) /
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noun
a mixture of proteolytic enzymes secreted by the small intestine
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Word Origin for erepsin

C20 er-, from Latin ēripere to snatch (from rapere to seize) + (p) epsin
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How to use erepsin in a sentence

  • They do not poison normally because they are split by the intestinal erepsin to amino-acids and absorbed as such.

    The Fundamentals of Bacteriology|Charles Bradfield Morrey
  • Luciferase is destroyed only by pepsin (probably), trypsin, erepsin, and something in spleen and liver extract.

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