Pepsin

Definition: Pepsin

Pepsin

Noun

1. An enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones.

Date "pepsin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Etymology: Pepsin \Pep"sin\, noun. [Greek expression cooking, digesting, digestion, from to cook, digest: compare to the French expression pepsine. Compare to Dyspepsia.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Pepsin

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Enzyme obtained from the stomach mucosa of hogs or cattle. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	An enzyme made in the stomach that breaks down proteins. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Pepsin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pepsin is a protease, a digestive enzyme that degrades proteins in the stomach; the other important digestive enzymes are trypsin and chymotrypsin. It was the first animal enzyme to be discovered, by Theodor Schwann in 1836.

Pepsin is expressed as a pro-form, pepsinogen with an additional 44 amino acids, which are cleaved off outside the secreting cell, to avoid digestion of cellular proteins.

Pepsin is most active at pH 2-4. It is permanently inactivated above pH 6.

The name Pepsi is derived from pepsin. Pepsin is also used in the preparation of cheese.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pepsin."

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Crosswords: Pepsin

English words defined with "pepsin": Albumose ♦ gastric juice ♦ Isopepsin ♦ pepsinogen, Peptohydrochloric ♦ Starch cellulose. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pepsin": Cathepsin D, Chief Cells, Gastric ♦ Misoprostol ♦ Pentagastrin, Pepsin A, Pepsinogens, Pepstatins ♦ Receptors, Cholecystokinin. (references)

Etymologies containing "pepsin": Isopepsin. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pepsin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (pepsin), Manx (pepsin), Serbo-Croatian (pepsin), Swedish (pepsin), Turkish (pepsin).

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Usage Frequency: Pepsin

"Pepsin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.00% of the time. "Pepsin" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99%	99	32,870
Noun (proper)	1%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	100	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Pepsin

Expression using "pepsin": Pepsin A. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "pepsin": pepsin-hydrochloric.
	Ending with "pepsin": acid-pepsin, tannin-pepsin.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pepsin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pepsin	57
okra pepsin e3	17
calf pepsin	7
okra pepsin	6
pepsin price	3
cheese pepsin price	3
betaine hcl pepsin	2
machine mansfield pepsin	2
beemans gum pepsin	2
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Modern Translations: Pepsin

Language		Translations for "pepsin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pepsinë. (various references)

Bulgarian		пепсин. (various references)

Chinese		蛋白酵� . (various references)

Danish		pepsin. (various references)

Dutch		pepsine. (various references)

Esperanto		pepsino. (various references)

Farsi		پپسین(pepsine)(تش.), انزیم گوارنده پروتلین درشیره معده . (various references)

French		pepsine. (various references)

German		Pepsin. (various references)

Greek		πεψίνη (pepsine). (various references)

Hebrew		עכלן. (various references)

Hungarian		pepszin. (various references)

Italian		pepsina. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ペトリ皿 (pedometer, penalty, penalty area, penalty box, penalty goal, penalty kick, penicillin, penicillin anaphylaxy, penicillin shock, penis, pennant, pennant race, pepper, peppermint, peptide, petri dish, petrofood, petroleum, PG). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ペプシン . (various references)

Manx		pepsin. (various references)

Pig Latin		epsinpay

Portuguese		pepsina. (various references)

Romanian		pepsinã. (various references)

Russian		пепсин. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		probavni (depletive), pepsin. (various references)

Spanish		pepsina. (various references)

Swedish		pepsin. (various references)

Turkish		pepsin. (various references)

Ukranian		пепсин. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pepsin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pepsin": pepsine, pepsines, pepsinogen, pepsinogens, pepsins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pepsin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: papain, Papcun, paphian, papin, Pensynnu, Pepsy, pepysian, pesan, pesi, Pessin, Pipson, popsie, presin, prespinal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pepsin"

Words rhyming with "pepsin" (pronounced 'Pep"sin'): Alkarsin, Amylopsin, BASIN, Biliprasin, Elsin, Emulsin, Haematosin, Hematosin, Isopepsin, Marcassin, Monesin, Quassin, Raisin, Sasin, Seisin, Sepsin, Steapsin, tocsin, trypsin, Zuisin. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pepsin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-n-p-p-s"
	-1 letter: peins, penis, pines, pipes, snipe, spine.
	-2 letters: nips, pein, pens, peps, pies, pine, pins, pipe, pips, sine, sipe, snip, spin.
	-3 letters: ens, ins, nip, pen, pep, pes, pie, pin, pip, pis, psi, sei, sen, sin, sip.
	-4 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, pe, pi, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-n-p-p-s"
	+1 letter: lippens, nappies, nippers, nipples, pepsine, pepsins, pigpens, pinesap, shippen, snipped, snipper, snippet.
	+2 letters: genipaps, nappiest, nippiest, panpipes, pepsines, pinesaps, pipiness, propines, shippens, snappier, snippers, snippets, snippety, snippier, stepping.
	+3 letters: antipopes, appeasing, downpipes, estopping, happiness, hippiness, hornpipes, nippiness, panoplies, penpoints, peperonis, peponidas, peponiums, peppiness, phosphine, pieplants, pinedrops, pinnipeds, pinstripe, pipelines, piperines, pipestone, preprints, pulpiness, sandpiper, sappiness, shlepping, snappiest, snippiest, soppiness, standpipe, unshipped, windpipes, zeppelins.
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