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insulinlike

insulinlike adjective: resembling insulin or some aspect of it.

Adjective

insulinlike (comparative more insulinlike, superlative most insulinlike)

  1. Resembling insulin or some aspect of it.
    • Both sell drugs that were approved in 2005 to treat extremely short children who are deficient in a hormone called insulinlike growth factor one, or IGF-1.2007 February 17, Andrew Pollack, “Growth Drug Is Caught Up in Patent Fight”, in New York Times

Forms of insulinlike

comparativemore insulinlike
superlativemost insulinlike

Origin of insulinlike

From insulin + -like.

Questions about insulinlike

What does insulinlike mean?
Insulinlike means resembling insulin or some aspect of it.
What part of speech is insulinlike?
Insulinlike is an adjective.

Words near insulinlike in the dictionary

  1. insulinization
  2. insulinize
  3. insulinized
  4. insulinizes
  5. insulinizing
  6. insulinlike
  7. insulinogenesis
  8. insulinogenic
  9. insulinogogue
  10. insulinogogues
  11. insulinoma

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