Category:Pancreatin

Pan"cre*a*tin, n. Etym: [see pancreas.] (physiol. Chem.)

Defn: 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.