See Also: hormone, secretin(medicine)
incline(medicine)
incline(1)(dictionary)
incline(2)(dictionary)
luteinizing hormone-2ffollicle-stimulating hormone-releasing factor(medicine)
incline 1, verb(dictionary)
incline 2, noun(dictionary)
secretin(dictionary)
Secretin(health)
Secretin(medicine)

incline 1, verb (oh) and hormone, secretin (medicine)


incline 1, verb (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: incliner, from Latin clinare 'to lean']
[T] formal if a situation, fact etc inclines you to do or think something, it influences you towards a particular action or opinion
incline sb to do sth
::The accident inclined him to reconsider his career.
[I] formal to think that a particular belief or opinion is most likely to be correct
incline to do sth
::I incline to accept the official version of events.
incline to/towards
::I incline to the opinion that this principle extends to cases of religious discrimination.
[I and T] to slope at a particular angle, or to make something do this
::The telescope is inclined at an angle of 43 degrees.
incline your head
to bend your neck so that your head is lowered

hormone, secretin (medicine)


hormone, secretin
Hormone made by glands in the small intestine that stimulates pancreatic secretion. The word hormone was coined by the English physiologists wm. M. Bayliss and ernest h. Starling in connection with their discovery of secretin, the first hormone, in 1902.