insulin

See also: Insulin

English

Etymology

From Latin īnsula (“island”) (named for the islets of Langerhans, where insulin is produced) +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsjʊlin/, /ˈɪnʃʊlɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsəlɪn/

• Audio (General American):

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• (General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnsəlɪn/, /ˈɪnʃʊlɪn/
• Hyphenation: in‧su‧lin

Noun

insulin (countable and uncountable, plural insulins)

2. A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (in various animals including humans).

   Hyponym: human insulin

   Coordinate term: glucagon

   Mommy said that Grandma's diabetes happened because her body stopped making its own insulin.

   • 1926, The Survey Volume 56, 65:

     Ask a dozen persons to tell you what they know about insulin and you will get some surprising and contradictory answers. The truth is this: Insulin is not a cure for diabetes, but it is helping to prolong and gladden lives.

   • 2019, Associated Press, “Colorado law caps cost of insulin at $100 a month,” The Washington Times:

     Nationally the average insulin price nearly tripled from 2002 through 2013, and prices have risen 10% or more a year since then, forcing many diabetics to ration their insulin.

   • 2021 December 14, Lisa Drayer, “Delicious winter drinks to get you through the holidays and cold weather”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     And that’s not all – EGCG in matcha can help improve insulin sensitivity, which aids in blood sugar control, and may help to reduce inflammation related to Alzheimer’s disease.

4. Any exogenous preparation of this hormone for use as a medication.

   The advent of insulin in the mid-20th century changed the lives of millions of people with diabetes.

   Hyponyms: human insulin, regular insulin

6. (loosely) Any exogenous preparation of this hormone or its analogues for use as a medication.

   A: What kind of insulin do you take? B: I use basal-bolus therapy, which in my case involves glargine and lispro.

   Hyponyms: insulin; regular insulin, human insulin; insulin analogue; insulin aspart, insulin degludec, insulin detemir, insulin glargine, insulin glulisine, insulin lispro

Derived terms

• human insulin
• insulinaemia
• insulinase
• insulin aspart
• insulin degludec
• insulin detemir
• insulinemia
• insulinergic
• insulin glargine
• insulin glulisine
• insulinic
• insulin icodec
• insulinitis
• insulinization
• insulinize
• insulinlike
• insulin-like growth factor, IGF
• insulin lispro
• insulinogenesis
• insulinogenic
• insulinogogue
• insulinoma
• insulinopathy
• insulinopenia
• insulinopenic
• insulinostatic
• insulinotropic
• insulinotropism
• insulin plant
• insulin pump
• insulin resistance
• insulin shock therapy
• insulysin
• neutral insulin
• noninsulin
• proinsulin
• regular insulin
• soluble insulin

Translations

polypeptide hormone

• Afrikaans: insulien
• Albanian: insulina
• Arabic: إِنْسُولِين m (ʔinsulin)
• Armenian: ինսուլին (hy) (insulin)
• Asturian: insulina
• Azerbaijani: insulin
• Basque: intsulina
• Belarusian: інсулі́н m (insulín)
• Bulgarian: инсули́н (bg) m (insulín)
• Burmese: အင်ဆူလင် (anghculang)
• Catalan: insulina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胰島素 / 胰岛素 (zh) (yídǎosù)

• Czech: inzulin (cs), inzulín (cs) m
• Danish: insulin (da)
• Dhivehi: އިންސިޔުލިން (in̊siyulin̊)
• Dutch: insuline (nl) m
• Esperanto: insulino
• Estonian: insuliin
• Finnish: insuliini (fi)
• French: insuline (fr) f
• Galician: insulina f
• Georgian: ინსულინი (insulini)
• German: Insulin (de) n
• Greek: ινσουλίνη (el) f (insoulíni)
• Hebrew: אינסולין (he) m (insulin)
• Hindi: मधुसूदनी (hi) (madhusūdnī)
• Hungarian: inzulin (hu)
• Icelandic: insúlín (is), eyjavaki m
• Indonesian: insulin (id)
• Irish: inslin
• Italian: insulina (it) f
• Japanese: インスリン (ja) (insurin), インシュリン (ja) (inshurin)
• Kapampangan: insulin
• Kazakh: инсулин (ıynsuwlıyn)
• Khmer: អាំងស៊ុយលីន (ʼangsuyliin)
• Korean: 인슐린 (insyullin)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: însulîn

• Latin: insulinum
• Latvian: insulīns
• Lithuanian: insulinas
• Macedonian: инсулин (insulin)
• Malay: insulin
• Malayalam: ഇൻസുലിന് (iṉsuliṉ)
• Māori: taiaki huka
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: insulin n

  Nynorsk: insulin n

• Occitan: insulina (oc) f
• Persian: انسولین (fa) (ansolin)
• Polish: insulina (pl) f
• Portuguese: insulina (pt) f
• Romanian: insulină (ro)
• Russian: инсули́н (ru) m (insulín)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инсулин m, инзулин

  Latin: insulin m, inzulin (sh)

• Slovak: inzulín (sk) m
• Slovene: insulin m
• Spanish: insulina (es) f
• Sundanese: insulin
• Swedish: insulin (sv) n
• Thai: อินซูลิน (th) (insoolin)
• Turkish: insülin (tr)
• Ukrainian: інсулі́н m (insulín)
• Urdu: جزیرین
• Vietnamese: insulin (vi)
• Yiddish: אינסולין (insulin)

Anagrams

• inulins

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /inˈsulin/ [inˈsu.lɪn]
• Rhymes: -ulin
• Syllabification: in‧su‧lin

Noun

insulin (plural insulin-insulin)

1. insulin

Derived terms

• insulin basal
• insulin eksogen
• insulin endogen

Further reading

• “insulin”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin insula +‎ -in.

Noun

insulin n (definite singular insulinet, uncountable)

1. insulin

References

• “insulin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “insulin” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin insula +‎ -in.

Noun

insulin n (definite singular insulinet, uncountable)

1. insulin

References

• “insulin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• inzùlīn (Croatia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /insǔliːn/
• Hyphenation: in‧su‧lin

Noun

insùlīn m inan (Cyrillic spelling инсу̀лӣн)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) insulin (polypeptide hormone)

Declension

Declension of insulin

	singular
nominative	insùlīn
genitive	insulína
dative	insulinu
accusative	insulin
vocative	insuline
locative	insulinu
instrumental	insulinom

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪn.sɵˈliːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Hyphenation: in‧su‧lin

Noun

insulin n

1. insulin

Declension

Declension of insulin

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	insulin	insulins
	definite	insulinet	insulinets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

See also

• diabetes

References

• “insulin”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “insulin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “insulin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH