Hormone made by glands in the small intestine that stimulates pancreatic secretion. The word "hormone" was coined by the English physiologists Wm. M. Bayliss and Ernest H. Starling in connection with their discovery of secretin, the first hormone, in 1902.
SECRETIN
Meaning of SECRETIN in English
English dictionary of medicine. Английский словарь медицины. 2012