|hormone, secretin||medical dictionary|
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.
(12 Dec 1998)
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