See Also: piarist(medicine)
Piarist(dictionary)

pepsin (iou) and Piarist (iou)


pepsin (iou)



pepsin noun. M19.
[from Greek pepsis digestion + -IN1.]
Biochemistry. The chief digestive enzyme of the stomach, an endopeptidase which splits proteins into polypeptides able to be absorbed, and was formerly used medicinally.
pepsinate verb trans. mix or treat with pepsin L19.
pep'sinogen noun the proenzyme form of pepsin L19.

Piarist (iou)



Piarist noun. M19.
[Italian Piaristi (masc. pl.), from mod. Latin patres scholarum piarum fathers of the religious schools: see -IST.]
A member of a Roman Catholic secular order, founded in Rome c 1600 and devoted to teaching the young.