Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pancreatin \Pan"cre*a*tin\, n. [See {Pancreas}.] (Physiol.
Chem.)
One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also,
a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the
pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to
digestion.
Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the
amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice, by others
it is applied to trypsin, and by still others to
steapsin.
Source : WordNet®
pancreatin
n : extract from the pancreas of animals that contains
pancreatic enzymes; used to treat pancreatitis and other
conditions involving insufficient pancreatic secretions