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Pancreatin

Pancreatin Meaning & Definition
Pancreatin Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pancreatin?

[n] extract from the pancreas of animals that contains pancreatic enzymes; used to treat pancreatitis and other conditions involving insufficient pancreatic secretions

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See Also | extract | infusion

Pancreatin In Webster's Dictionary

\Pan"cre*a*tin\, n. [See {Pancreas}.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice, by others it is applied to trypsin, and by still others to steapsin.

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