enterogastrone

/ ˌɛntərəʊˈɡæstrəʊn /

noun

1. a hormone liberated by the upper intestinal mucosa when stimulated by fat: reduces peristalsis and secretion in the stomach

Word History and Origins

Origin of enterogastrone¹

C20: from entero- + gastro- + ( horm ) one

Example Sentences

On occasion, he has trotted round to Chicago slaughterhouses to extract enterogastrone from hog intestines himself.

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Famed Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois, has been experimenting for a dozen years or so with a hormone called enterogastrone, found in normal small intestines of men and animals.

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He still does not know just what there is in enterogastrone that makes it work.

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To the members of the American Physiological Society meeting in Chicago last week he described a hormone which seems to turn the trick: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines.

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Dr. Ivy gave ten of them injections of enterogastrone, three times a day, for seven months.

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