pancreatinn.

1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 674/2 Its great use appears, however, to be, to emulsify fatty matters by virtue of a peculiar albuminoid principle–pancreatin.

1873 C. H. Ralfe Outl. Physiol. Chem. 145 Pancreatin is obtained by rubbing down the pancreas of a freshly killed animal, in full digestion, with pounded glass,..from which the pancreatin may be precipitated by alcohol.

1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance (1913) xvi. 105 Did he..get indigestion, and to hand was artificial digestive fluid or bile or pancreatine, as the case might be.

1934 Q. Rev. Biol. 9 322/1 The progress of digestion of starch by pancreatin was followed by removing alternately five drop samples of the solutions to spot plate depressions and adding a drop of dilute iodine.

1978 Adv. Exper. Med. & Biol. 105 587 In vitro hydrolysis studies using bovine chymotrypsin, pancreatine and rat bile-pancreatic juice indicated that digestibility of the modified casein derivatives was lower than that of the untreated protein.

1990 Health Now July 5/2 A pancreatin tablet after meals can help, together with a tablet of betaine hydrochloride.

2003 World Jrnl. Surg. 27 1192 The enzyme supplements, using standard preparations of pancreatin, usually of porcine source, may be as much as 4 to 8 tablets per meal and should be taken with food.