Crossword-Solution: PEPSIN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pepsin | n. | 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. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “PEPSIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| protein digestive | 1 answer |
| The chief digestive enzyme in the stomach | 1 answer |
| Stomach enzyme | 1 answer |
| Stomach creation | 1 answer |
| GASTRIC juice, constituent of | 1 answer |
| Enzyme used by cheesemakers | 1 answer |
| Enzyme produced in the stomach | 1 answer |
| Chewing-gum additive. | 1 answer |
| Important enzyme | 3 answers |
| DIGESTIVE juice | 4 answers |
| DIGESTIVE aid | 7 answers |
| Digestive enzyme | 8 answers |
| AID DIGESTIVE | 10 answers |
| digestive protein | 10 answers |
| A DIGESTIVE JUICE SECRETED BY THE LIVER AND STORED IN THE GALLBLADDER | 10 answers |
| DIGESTIVE organ | 12 answers |
| DIGESTION AID | 13 answers |
| enzyme | 34 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PEPSIN (5)
And the chemists soon discovered that in each one of the essential digestive juices there is at least one substance having certain resemblances to pepsin, though acting on different kinds of food.
Notice is hereby served.’ “‘I’ll be as candid as you,’ admits Collier, ‘and if the drug stores don’t run out of pepsin I’ll give you a run for your money that’ll leave you a dyspeptic at the wind-up.’ “So Collier and me begins the race; the grub department lays in new supplies; Mame waits on us, jolly and kind and agreeable, and it looks like an even break, with Cupid and the cook working overtime in Dugan’s restaurant.
Frankland has told me how to test in a rough way for pepsin; and in the autumn he will discover what acid the digestive juice contains.
She had a wide mouth that kept the peppermint-pepsin tablets rattling like hail from the slot-machine wherever she went, and she could whistle hornpipes.
Hundreds of the excited mob press close to the cowering motorman, whose hand is observed to tremble perceptibly as he transfers a stick of pepsin gum from his pocket to his mouth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1955–2018).