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banting

[ UK /bˈɑːntɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. wild ox of the Malay Archipelago

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  • One of the most significant discoveries of all occurred in 1921 when Canadian physiologists Banting and Best isolated the hormone insulin.
  • Martinez tried to imagine the smaller than a pinhead probe shooting across the vast distance of the Dry-dock area towards the Banting.
  • His pamphlet, "Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public," quickly crossed the Atlantic and become so popular here that "banting" became slang for dieting, Granberg says. 150 years of dieting fads and still no quick fix
  • The banting is a trading vessel, of a larger class, having two masts, with upright sails like the former, rising at the stem and stern, and somewhat resembling a Chinese junk, excepting in its size. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
  • This brainstorm on the eve of October 30th at his home in London, Ontario would lead to Banting formulating a hypothesis.
  • Doctor Banting, of England, the father of latter-day dietetics from whose name in commemoration of his services to mankind we derive the verb intransitive "to bant," had theories wherein his chief contemporaneous One Third Off
  • This was done by Banting in a severe case under the care of W.R. Campbell, with the result that the hyperglycaemia and glycosuria were diminished. John Macleod - Nobel Lecture
  • One mattress about four inches thick over squeaking slats, cotton sheets, so nicely calculated to the size of the bed that the slightest move on the part of the sleeper would detach them from their moorings and undo the housemaid's work; two limp, discouraged pillows that had evidently been "banting," and a few towels a foot long with a surface like sand-paper, completed the fittings of the room. Worldly Ways and Byways
  • Dieting thereafter was referred to as "banting" by folks in the British Isles well into the 20th century. A Brief History of Dubious Dieting
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