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pepsin (n.)
also
pepsine
, fermin in gastric juice, used medicinally for cases of indigestion, 1844, coined in German (Theodor Schwann, 1835) from Greek
pepsis
"digestion," from stem
pep-
(see
peptic
) +
-in
(2).
