Physiological Chem. [f. Gr. στέα-ρ fat, after PEPSIN.] A ferment of the pancreatic juice which saponifies fat (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1898).
1896. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., I. 175. Whether it [i.e., fat necrosis] be due to a change produced by the steapsin on the fat … is not decided. Ibid. (1897), III. 723. The ferments of the pancreas, especially the fat-transforming steapsin, may be searched for.
