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Secretin

Definition: Secretin

Secretin

Noun

1. Peptic hormone produced by the mucous lining of the small intestine; can stimulate secretion by the pancreas and liver.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Secretin

DomainDefinitions

Health

A hormone made in the duodenum. Causes the stomach to make pepsin, the liver to make bile, and the pancreas to make a digestive juice. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Secretin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A hormone produced by the small intestine to signal the secretion of pancreatic juice.

See also: digestive tract

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Secretin."

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Commercial Usage: Secretin

DomainTitle

Books

  • Secretin, cholecystokinin, pancreozymin and gastrin (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Secretin

"Secretin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Secretin" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1493,893

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Secretin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  secretin

52

  disease secretin

7

  secretin autism

5

  secretin transdermal

2
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Modern Translations: Secretin

Language Translations for "secretin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sekretin, secretin. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

secretin. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sekretiini. (various references)

   

French

  

sécrétine. (various references)

   

German

  

Sekretin, Secretinum, Secretin. (various references)

   

Italian

  

secretina. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecretinsay

   

Portuguese

  

secretina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

secretina. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sekretin. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Secretin

Derivations

Words beginning with "secretin": secreting, secretins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Secretin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: enticers.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-r-s-t"

-1 letter: centers, centres, cerites, cistern, cretins, enteric, enticer, entices, entires, entries, recites, retines, sincere, tenrecs, tierces, trienes.

-2 letters: censer, center, centre, cerise, cerite, certes, citers, cretin, enters, entice, entire, erects, estrin, incest, inerts, insect, insert, inters, nereis, nester, nicest, nieces, niters, nitres, recent, recite, renest, rentes, resect, resent, resite, reties, retine, screen, secern.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: ceintures, centiares, centuries, cisternae, creatines, enuretics, erections, frenetics, gentrices, incenters, infecters, intersect, iterances, nectaries, neoterics, prentices, prescient, reincites, reinfects, reinjects, reinspect, resecting, resection, secreting, secretins, secretion, sincerest, stenchier, stenciler, stridence, virescent.

 

+2 letters: ancestries, catenaries, centauries, centralise, centrioles, certainest, christened, coresident, cornetcies, crescentic, directness, dysenteric, eccentrics, energetics, epicenters, estrogenic, excretions, increments, increscent, indiscreet, intercaste, intercedes, intercepts, interfaces, interjects, interlaces, intersects, interspace, interstice, intrenches, iridescent, linecaster, mesenteric, nectarines, princelets, putrescine, quercetins, receptions, rechristen, recipients, refections, reinspects, rejections, resections, resistance, respecting, restricken, reticences, sceptering, scrutineer, secretions, stencilers, stenciller, stridences, syncretise, syncretize, synergetic, thickeners, transience, turgencies, ventricles, ventricose.

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Alternative Orthography: Secretin


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 63 72 65 74 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .    -.-.    .-.    .    -    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0063 0072 0065 0074 0069 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371698471867580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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