See Also: hormone, secretin(medicine)
luteinizing hormone-2ffollicle-stimulating hormone-releasing factor(medicine)
secretin(dictionary)
Secretin(medicine)
Secretin(health)
secretin test(medicine)
Secretin-ferring(health)
hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists(medicine)
Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)(health)
Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone (GHRH)(health)

samisen (iou) and hormone, secretin (medicine)


samisen (iou)



samisen noun. . E17.
[Japanese from Chinese sanxian (Wade-Giles san-hsien), from san three + xian string.]
A long-necked three-stringed Japanese lute, played with a plectrum or the fingers. Cf. SAN-HSIEN.

hormone, secretin (medicine)


hormone, secretin
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.