Rennin

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1. Noun

A milk-clotting enzyme obtained from the true stomach (abomasum) of a suckling calf. Mol. wt. about 31,000. Also called chymosin, rennase, and abomasal enzyme.

2. Noun

an enzyme that occurs in gastric juice; causes milk to coagulate
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