isletin

[< F islet isle + E -in]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an early name for insulin.

Quotations

1929

At the end of this time we had used up all the available supply of what we then called "isletin."

1959

The digestive enzymes of sweetbreads were too abundant to permit the isolation of the elusive isletin.