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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pepsin/ˈpepsɪn/

▶noun Biochemistry the chief digestive enzyme in the stomach, which breaks down proteins into polypeptides.

– origin C19: from Gk pepsis ‘digestion’ + -in1.

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