rennin meaning

Noun: rennin  renin

1. An enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate
   - chymosin

Derived forms: rennins

Type of: coagulase, enzyme

Part of: gastric acid, gastric juice, rennet

Encyclopedia: Rennin

[Medicine]
The predominant milk-clotting enzyme from the true stomach or abomasum of the suckling calf. It is secreted as an inactive precursor called prorennin and converted in the acid environment of the stomach to the active enzyme. EC 3.4.23.4. 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 making cheese and casein for plastics —called also chymosin

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