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Banting

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Ban·ting  (bntng), Sir Frederick Grant 1891-1941.
Canadian physiologist. He shared a 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin.
banting [ˈbæntɪŋ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) Obsolete slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat
[named after William Banting (1797-1878), London undertaker who popularized this diet]
Banting [ˈbæntɪŋ]
n
(Biographies / Banting, Sir Frederick Grant (1891-1941) M, Canadian, SCIENCE: physiologist) Sir Frederick Grant. 1891-1941, Canadian physiologist: discovered the insulin treatment for diabetes with Best and Macleod (1922) and shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Macleod (1923)
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Noun1.BantingBanting - Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting
2.Bantingbanting - wild ox of the Malay Archipelago    
banteng, Bos banteng, tsine
Bos, genus Bos - wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini
wild ox, ox - any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos


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