Pepsin

[rreipic, digestion]. A ferment found in the gastric juice, and capable of digesting proteids in the presence of an acid. It splits albumin into anti albumose and hem i albumose, the former of which it separates into two molecules of anti peptone, while the latter is acted upon by trypsin and split into two molecules of hem i peptone. Pepsin is used in medicine to aid digestion. 486