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islet

[ahy-lit]

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noun

a very small island.

adjective

Anatomy. situated in or pertaining to the islet of Langerhans: islet cells.

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the flattened region on either side of the forehead in humans

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Origin:
1530–40; < Middle French islette. See isle, -et

Related forms

is·let·ed, adjective

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Many diabetes researchers insist that a cure lies instead in research on stem cells and islet cell transplants.

As glucose from the blood washes in through the nanopores, the enclosed islet cells respond by releasing insulin.

We stayed at a small resort that was situated on a small islet in the inner lagoon.

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islet (ˈaɪlɪt)

—n
	a small island

[C16: from Old French islette; see isle]

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islet is·let (ī'lĭt)
n.
A small island.

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"Again we mistook a little rocky islet seen through the "drisk," with some taller bare trunks or stumps on it, for the steamer with its smoke-pipes, but as it had not changed its position after half an hour, we were undeceived. So much do the works of man resemble the works of nature. A moose might mistake a steamer for a floating isle, and not be scared till he heard its puffing or its whistle."

-Henry David Thoreau

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