英语词汇islets islands of langerhans的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	islets islands of langerhans
词源	islets (islands) of Langerhans. German anatomist Paul Langerhans (1847–88) may be the only person to have a group of small islands named after him. However, these islets are en- docrine cells throughout the pancreas that secrete insulin and glucagon, the malfunction of which causes diabetes. Dr. Lang- erhans was, in 1869, the first to describe the cells.
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