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Insulin

Insulin

See also: insulin

German

Noun

Insulin n ‎(genitive Insulins, no plural)

insulin (polypeptide hormone)

Declension

Declension of Insulin (uncountable)

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Insulin
genitive	eines	des	Insulins
dative	einem	dem	Insulin
accusative	ein	das	Insulin

insulin

insulin

See also: Insulin

English

Noun

insulin ‎(countable and uncountable, plural insulins)

A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism.

Translations

polypeptide hormone

Afrikaans: insulien
Albanian: insulina
Arabic: إِنْسُولِين m ‎(ʾinsulin)
Armenian: ինսուլին (hy) ‎(insulin)
Asturian: insulina
Basque: intsulina
Belarusian: інсулі́н m ‎(insulín)
Bulgarian: инсули́н m ‎(insulín)
Catalan: insulina
Chinese:
Mandarin: 胰島素 (zh), 胰岛素 (zh) ‎(yídǎosù)
Czech: inzulin (cs), inzulín (cs) m
Danish: insulin (da)
Dhivehi: އިންސިޔުލިން ‎(insiyulin)
Dutch: insuline (nl) m
Esperanto: insulino
Estonian: insuliin
Finnish: insuliini (fi)
French: insuline (fr) f
Galician: insulina
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 ‎(insurin), インシュリン (ja) ‎(inshurin)

Kapampangan: insulin
Korean: 인슐린 ‎(insyullin)
Kurdish: însulîn
Latin: insulinum
Latvian: insulīns
Lithuanian: insulinas
Macedonian: инсулин ‎(insulin)
Malay: insulin
Malayalam: ഇന്‍സുലിന്‍ ‎(in‍sulin‍)
Maori: taiaki huka
Norwegian: insulin
Norwegian Nynorsk: insulin
Occitan: insulina
Persian: انسولین (fa) ‎(ensulin)
Polish: insulina (pl) f
Portuguese: insulina (pt) f
Romanian: insulină (ro)
Russian: инсули́н (ru) m ‎(insulín)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: инсулин m, инзулин

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

Derived terms

insulin-like growth factor / IGF