TRYPSINOGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trypsinogen mean? 

• TRYPSINOGEN (noun)
  The noun TRYPSINOGEN has 1 sense:

1. inactive precursor of trypsin; a substance secreted by the pancreas and converted to active trypsin by enterokinase in the small intestine

  Familiarity information: TRYPSINOGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRYPSINOGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inactive precursor of trypsin; a substance secreted by the pancreas and converted to active trypsin by enterokinase in the small intestine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("trypsinogen" is a kind of...):

trypsin (an enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units)

 Context examples 

Cystine is abundant in many proteins of skeletal tissues and skin, and found in insulin and digestive enzymes chromotrypsinogen A, papain, and trypsinogen.

(Cystine, NCI Thesaurus)

Another proteolytic enzyme, enteropeptidase, is associated with the brush border of enterocytes; this enzyme catalyses the conversion of trypsinogen into trypsin which, in turn, can activate a number of other pancreatic zymogens.

(Pancreatic Proteolytic Enzymes, NCI Thesaurus)