intestinal

(in-tes'tl-nal). Relating to the intestine. i. juice, succus enteric us, an alkaline straw-colored fluid secreted by the crypts of Lieberkuhn and the simple follicles its function is to complete the hydrolysis of carbohydrates and change them into invert sugar by means of the contained invertase and m,altase, and to complete, the hydrolysis of protein by means of erepsin; it contains also enterokinase which is believed to convert the trypsinogen of the pancreatic juice into trypsin..