| 单词 | island of langerhans |
| 释义 | > as lemmasisland (or Island) of Langerhans b. Physiology. A detached or insulated portion of tissue or group of cells, entirely surrounded by parts of a different structure; island of Reil, the central lobe of the cerebrum, insula; island (or Island) of Langerhans = islet (or Islet) of Langerhans at islet n. 2b; also elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > isolated or differentiated islet1851 island1879 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 339 Microscopically the diseased tissue consisted of vascular meshes, containing numerous small cellular islands. 1879 H. Calderwood Relations Mind & Brain 25 The concealed central lobe (island of Reil) shows the grey matter always deep. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. ix. 173 The islands of sound skin [in the eruption of dengue] give rise at first sight to the impression that they constitute the eruption. 1899 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 4 285 Pigment is frequently abundant in the cells composing the intertubular cell-groups or islands of Langerhans. 1900 Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 11 205 (heading) On the histology of the islands of Langerhans of the pancreas. 1900 Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 11 207 When the fœtal pancreas is affected by congenital syphillis, the islands..retain their continuity with the secreting structures. 1951 A. Grollman Pharmacol. & Therapeutics xxvi. 571 Banting and Best..obtained a preparation which was named insulin, since it is derived from the Islands of Langerhans in the pancreas, and not from the general parenchyma of the gland. 1962 W. H. Hollinshead Textbk. Anat. ix. 140/2 The endocrine tissue of the pancreas, the pancreatic islands (islets) or islands of Langerhans, consists of small groups of cells scattered among the more numerous acini. < as lemmas |
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