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Pepsinogen

Pepsinogen Meaning & Definition
Pepsinogen Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pepsinogen?

[n] precursor of pepsin; stored in the stomach walls and converted to pepsin by hydrochloric acid in the stomach

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Pepsinogen In Webster's Dictionary

\Pep*sin"o*gen\, n. [Pepsin + -gen.] (Physiol. Chem.) The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called {propepsin}.

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