SECRETIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secretin mean? 

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

1. a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of water and bicarbonate from the pancreas and bile ducts whenever the stomach empties too much acid into the small intestine

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECRETIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of water and bicarbonate from the pancreas and bile ducts whenever the stomach empties too much acid into the small intestine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

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

gastrointestinal hormone; GI hormones (hormones that affect gastrointestinal functioning)

 Context examples 

It measures the ability of the pancreas to respond to the hormone secretin (a hormone that causes other substances to be released by the stomach, liver, and pancreas).

(Pancreatic function test, NCI Dictionary)

ChiRhoStim is a form of secretin that is made in the laboratory.

(ChiRhoStim, NCI Dictionary)

Similar to somatostatin, this agent also suppresses the luteinizing hormone response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone, decreases splanchnic blood flow, and inhibits the release of serotonin, gastrin, vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), secretin, motilin, pancreatic polypeptide, and thyroid stimulating hormone.

(Octreotide, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called secretin human and synthetic human secretin.

(ChiRhoStim, NCI Dictionary)

Secretin is given to the patient by a tube put through the nose or throat into the small intestine and stomach or by injection into a vein.

(Pancreatic function test, NCI Dictionary)

Secretin causes the pancreas, liver, and stomach to release substances that help digest food.

(ChiRhoStim, NCI Dictionary)

Also called secretin stimulation test.

(Pancreatic function test, NCI Dictionary)