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Dictionary.com · The American Heritage® Dictionary
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Chymosin, known also as rennin, is a proteolytic enzyme synthesized by chief cells in the stomach. Its role in digestion is to curdle or coagulate milk in the stomach, a process of considerable importance in the very young animal.
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Chymosin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chymosin (or rennin , not to be confused with renin , a kidney hormone) is an aspartic acid protease enzyme found in rennet. It is produced by the cow, in the lining of the abomasum (its fourth s...
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on rennin (enzyme), protein-digesting enzyme that curdles milk by transforming caseinogen into insoluble casein; it is found only in the fourth stomach of cud-chewing animals, such as cows. ... In animals that lack rennin, milk is coagulated by the action of pepsin, as is the case in...
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Definition of rennin from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. ... Learn more about "rennin" and related topics at Britannica.com...
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rennin n. An enzyme that catalyzes the coagulation of milk, found in the gastric juice of the fourth stomach of young ruminants and used in making ... The traditional source of rennin is the fourth stomach (abomasum) of calves that have been fed only milk. The stomachs are dried or salted, cut into small pieces,
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rennin - FastHealth Medical Dictionary ... n : a crystallizable enzyme that coagulates milk, that occurs esp. with pepsin in the gastric juice of young animals and is obtained as a yellowish powder, grains, or scales usu. ... by extraction of the mucous membrane of the fourth stomach of calves, and that is used chiefly in...
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