insulin: [20] Insulin, a hormone which promotes the utilization of blood sugar, was first isolated in 1921 by F G Banting and C H Best. Its name, which was inspired by the fact that insulin is secreted by groups of cells known as the islets of Langerhans (insula is Latin for ‘island’), was actually coined in French around 1909, and was independently proposed in English on a couple of further occasions before the substance itself was anything more than a hypothesis. => isle, peninsula
insulin (n.)
1922 (earlier insuline, 1914), coined in English from Latin insula "island," so called because the hormone is secreted by the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Insuline was coined independently in French in 1909.
实用例句
1. Insulin is produced commercially from animals.
为获利从动物体内提取胰岛素。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Insulin is secreted by the pancreas.
胰岛素是胰腺分泌的。
来自《权威词典》
3. When the chitosan nanoparticles loaded insulin ( INS ), the pharmacodynamics after pulmonary administration in vivo was evaluted.