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islets of Langerhans

noun

Etymology

Translating French îlots de Langerhans; named after Paul Langerhans, the German anatomist who discovered these regions in the pancreas.

  1. derived from îlots de Langerhans; named after Paul Langerhans

Definitions

  1. Distinctive regions of tissue in the pancreas, which contain its endocrine cells.

    • Edward Sharpey-Schäfer determined that the substance necessary for carbohydrate metabolism was produced in the Islets of Langerhans, naming this new substance ‘insuline’ after the Latin insula (island).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for islets of Langerhans. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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