cholecystokinin/pancreozymin
- cholecystokinin/pancreozymin
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a digestive hormone released with secretin when food from the stomach reaches the first part of the small intestine (
the duodenum).
Once considered to be two separate hormones because of its two distinct actions,
cholecystokinin/
pancreozymin evokes the release (
ascribed to pancreozymin)
of enzymes from the pancreas;
it also causes contraction (
ascribed to cholecystokinin)
of the gallbladder,
thereby forcing bile into the duodenum.
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Universalium.
2010.
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cholecystokinin-pancreozymin — noun see cholecystokinin … New Collegiate Dictionary
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cholecystokinin — noun Etymology: New Latin cholecystis + English o + kinin Date: circa 1929 a hormone secreted especially by the duodenal mucosa that regulates the emptying of the gallbladder and secretion of enzymes by the pancreas and that has been found in the … New Collegiate Dictionary
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pancreozymin — SYN: cholecystokinin. * * * pan·creo·zy·min .pan krē ō zī mən n CHOLECYSTOKININ * * * n. the name originally given to the fraction of the hormone cholecystokinin that acts on the pancreas. * * * pan·creo·zy·min (panґkre o zi″min)… … Medical dictionary
pancreozymin — noun Etymology: pancreas + o + zym + 1 in Date: 1943 cholecystokinin … New Collegiate Dictionary
pancreozymin — pan·cre·o·zy·min (păng krē ō zīʹmĭn, păn ) n. See cholecystokinin. [pancreas + zymo + in.] * * * … Universalium
pancreozymin — n. the name originally given to the fraction of the hormone cholecystokinin that acts on the pancreas … The new mediacal dictionary
secretin-cholecystokinin test — (for pancreatic function) a combination of the secretin test and the cholecystokinin test, measuring pancreatic secretion volume and secretion of bicarbonate, amylase, lipase, and trypsin. Called also secretin pancreozymin t … Medical dictionary
secretin-pancreozymin test — secretin cholecystokinin t … Medical dictionary