A medical condition or state of lacking digestive enzymes or suffering from deficient digestive function.
From Greek 'a-' (without) + 'pepsin' (digestive enzyme) + '-ia' (condition). This is a variant or related form of 'apepsia,' using the more specific term 'pepsin' (the enzyme itself) rather than the general process of digestion.
Pepsin was one of the first enzymes ever discovered (in the 1800s), so diseases related to pepsin deficiency like 'apepsinia' reflect the early scientific focus on this single, crucial digestive enzyme.
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