GLUCAGON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glucagon mean? 

• GLUCAGON (noun)
  The noun GLUCAGON has 1 sense:

1. a hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin)

  Familiarity information: GLUCAGON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUCAGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hormone secreted by the pancreas; stimulates increases in blood sugar levels in the blood (thus opposing the action of insulin)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("glucagon" is a kind of...):

endocrine; hormone; internal secretion (the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect)

 Context examples 

This protein belongs to the glucagon family and is a preproprotein that is produced in the hypothalamus.

(Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare pancreatic tumor that produces a hormone called glucagon.

(Glucagonoma, NCI Dictionary)

A measurement of the glucagon hormone in a biological specimen.

(Glucagon Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Octreotide is a more potent inhibitor of growth hormone, glucagon, and insulin than somatostatin.

(Octreotide, NCI Thesaurus)

Oxycodone also inhibits the release of vasopressin, somatostatin, insulin, and glucagon.

(Oxycodone, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent is more potent than somatostatin in inhibiting the release of human growth hormone (HGH), glucagon, and insulin.

(Pasireotide, NCI Thesaurus)

The pancreas also releases the hormones insulin and glucagon into the bloodstream.

(Pancreatitis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

It may or may not be associated with inappropriate secretion of glucagon and an associated clinical syndrome.

(Pancreatic Glucagon-Producing Neuroendocrine Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a second messenger and a key intracellular regulator, functioning as a mediator of activity for a number of hormones, including epinephrine, glucagon, and ACTH.

(Adenosine Cyclic 3',5'-Phosphate, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The determination of the amount of glucagon hormone present in a sample.

(Glucagon Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)