\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.