Sentence example with the word 'secretin'

secretin

Definition n. a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of water and bicarbonate from the pancreas and bile ducts whenever the stomach empties too much acid into the small intestine

Last update: September 29, 2015


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Thus an acid in the duodenum causes it to secrete a hormone to which the name of "secretin" has been given.   [Please select]

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This process is called secretin' the lime; coral insects do the same, and, as many of the islands of the south seas are made by coral insects, you may guess that a considerable lot of lime is made away with.'   [Please select]

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