insulinin a sentence
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Insulin injections are used to treat some forms of diabetes.
insulin = a hormone that controls blood sugar levels
- Not only Lavinia, but all diabetics in Fort Repose, dependent upon insulin, died at about the same period as the drug lost its potency. (source)
- With. your permission we will add this to the insulin treatment.† (source)
- At one point Russell, who is diabetic, raises his shirt and injects himself in the stomach with insulin.† (source)
- Bubeh had diabetes and had to take insulin every day, which my Aunt Betsy often gave her.† (source)
- Then, to my astonishment, he produced some insulin for the diabetes I didn't have.† (source)
- Or lots of soybean milk for B-12 and lots of vegetables to regulate insulin release but no meat, no fish , no fruit.† (source)
- She put the dozen or so bottles of insulin that Rahel brought her in the cheese and butter compartment.† (source)
- You're on insulin.† (source)
- Happily, repeated insulin shock treatments and two weeks in the Dark Room have somewhat improved the patient's temperament.† (source)
- To Woolf, Genevieve, and a few close friends, it meant something entirely different: insulin-dependent, Type I diabetes.† (source)
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- Which led me to read about insulin.† (source)
- The order of stringing determined the nature of the protein—whether it was insulin, hemoglobin, or growth hormone.† (source)
- The screams entered my brain like some enormously powerful insulin, like gusts of pure oxygen, and I glided across the deeply polished mirror of the gymnasium floor, a boy in my prime who could run windsprints all day, a boy who could bring the ball up court against anybody on earth.† (source)
- I know as well as anyone that it's challenging for a medical supplier to create an attractive storefront, that bedpans and insulin kits don't make for a naturally scintillating display, but with a little effort and creativity it's not long before you can come up with a window that is almost pleasing to look at.† (source)
- In 1918 insulin was still unknown.† (source)
- This time it's because we've discovered insulin.† (source)
- Insulin had only been discovered about a decade before Woolf's diagnosis.† (source)
- Showed up in the hospital once or twice in coma, because he wouldn't take his insulin.† (source)
- That was three years ago, and as far as I know, he took his insulin regularly from then on.† (source)
- We put him on insulin, fifty units a day, but he was casual, like I said.† (source)
- A cop who didn't take his insulin and had a habit of going into ketoacidosis.† (source)
- Three people: A diabetic in acidosis, from failure to take insulin.† (source)
- Without refrigeration, insulin deteriorated rapidly.† (source)
- And for your mother, Elizabeth, extra bottles of insulin.† (source)
- "Insulin," Dan said, continuing to write, "requires refrigeration."† (source)
- Since Lavinia McGovern suffered from diabetes, insulin had kept her alive.† (source)
- She wondered whether she could change from insulin to the new oral drug.† (source)
- The hospital no longer possessed insulin or substitutes for insulin.† (source)
- Your mother is balanced at seventy units of insulin a day.† (source)
- You've been giving her her insulin shot every morning, haven't you?† (source)
- Its insulin had already gone to meet the demand in its own community.† (source)
- To steal Baby Kochamma's imported insulin and her cream buns that came all the way from Best-bakery in Kottayam.† (source)
- She suspected that these days, even the innocent and the round-eyed could be crockery crooks, or cream-bun cravers, or thieving diabetics cruising Ayemenem for imported insulin.† (source)
- Soon, by the law of geometric progression, we'll all be diabetics, and since insulin is made from cows' stomachs the whole world will be covered with insulin-producing cows, the parts that aren't covered with human beings, who are reproducing much too rapidly for their own good anyway.† (source)
- He tried to find a happy medium, taking his insulin regularly, eating thick steaks, and reducing the extra weight off.† (source)
- Insulin injections encouraged Woolf to gain weight, and to manage his diabetes he needed to consume regular, high-protein, low-carbohydrate meals—meats were recommended—which also added pounds.† (source)
- Giving himself repeated daily shots of canine insulin in the abdomen, arm, or leg, Woolf almost certainly spent his days boomeranging between insulin gluts and deficits.† (source)
- The discovery of insulin in 1921 would have lifted that sentence and offered him a long and reasonably healthy life.† (source)
- If he ever learned about insulin, though, he certainly never used it, for the needle required for daily injections was not part of our household goods.† (source)
- They had driven to San Marco hoping to find refrigerated insulin, or the new oral drug, at the hospital.† (source)
- I don't want to take her off insulin.† (source)
- Moulton and Iggy had known him back in New York, and one of the first things Moulton told me about him was that only a couple of years before if you let this Oliver into your house you ran the risk that he would steal some of your clothes and hock them for whisky; and when last heard from he was in the booby-hatch for the insulin cure, with the screaming meemies.† (source)
- He had been forged, by that deluded old teacher, into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or patient discoverer of insulin.† (source)
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