Meaning of islets of Langerhans | Babel Free

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Distinctive regions of tissue in the pancreas, which contain its endocrine cells.

plural, plural-normally

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“Edward Sharpey-Schäfer determined that the substance necessary for carbohydrate metabolism was produced in the Islets of Langerhans, naming this new substance ‘insuline’ after the Latin insula (island).”

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