INSULIN


Meaning of INSULIN in English

■ noun Biochemistry a polypeptide pancreatic hormone which lowers glucose levels in the blood, a lack of which causes diabetes.

Origin

early 20th cent.: from L. insula 'island' (with ref. to the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas) + -in 1 .

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