Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of lacrimator): chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile; CS gas (a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema)
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Renin. Renin, also known as an angiotensinogenase, is an enzyme that participates in the body's renin-angiotensin system âalso known as the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone axisâthat mediates extracellular volume, and arterial vasoconstriction.
(Monty Python). Blessed are the cheesemakers. (Monty Python). Chymosin, known also as rennin, is a proteolytic enzyme synthesized by chief cells in the stomach. Its role in digestion is to curdle or coagulate milk in the stomach, a process of considerable importance in the very young animal.n order to understand how chymosin coagulates milk, one needs to know something about milk proteins. The majority of milk protein is casein and there are four major types of casein molecules: alpha-s1, alpha-s2, beta and kappa.