- 1胰島素
Insulin is a substance your body makes — mainly in the — that lets sugar in the blood move into cells so it can be used for energy. A healthy body is releasing insulin all through the day, more after a meal when blood sugar rises. If the body cannot make enough insulin, or cannot use it well, sugar stays in the blood; that is the problem in diabetes, which is why some people take insulin as medicine, often by injection. Though actually, many students first meet insulin as ‘the shot for diabetes’ and forget it is also something the body is already making. It is not a vitamin and not a kind of sugar; it is the messenger that helps sugar get where it needs to go.
組成From Latin īnsula (‘island’), named for the islets of Langerhans (the little ‘islands’ of cells where insulin is made), + -in.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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insulinnoun/ˈɪnsjʊlin/
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A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (in various animals including humans).
- Mommy said that Grandma's diabetes happened because her body stopped making its own insulin.
- Ask a dozen persons to tell you what they know about insulin and you will get some surprising and contradictory answers. The truth is this: Insulin is not a cure for diabetes, but it is helping to prolong and gladden lives.
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Any exogenous preparation of this hormone for use as a medication.
- The advent of insulin in the mid-20th century changed the lives of millions of people with diabetes.
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Any exogenous preparation of this hormone or its analogues for use as a medication.
- A: What kind of insulin do you take? B: I use basal-bolus therapy, which in my case involves glargine and lispro.
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