recombinant human insulin
- noun
- /ˌriːˈkɒmbɪnənt ˈhjuːmən ˈɪnsəlɪn/
- Specialized
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insulina humana recombinante
- In hospitals, recombinant human insulin is commonly administered to help control hyperglycemia in diabetic patients.
Examples
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Almost all insulin used today is biosynthetic recombinant human insulin.
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Recombinant human insulin is often preferred by patients who cannot tolerate recombinant human insulin.
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Many diabetes patients rely on recombinant human insulin to effectively manage their blood sugar levels.
Surface Forms
Morphology
recombinant + human + insulin
The noun phrase is fully compositional: 'insulin' names the hormone, 'human' specifies its species origin, and 'recombinant' indicates it is produced by gene recombination (genetically engineered). A learner who knows those three constituent meanings can readily infer the phrase denotes genetically engineered human insulin; the adjective+noun assembly is standard and cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Recombinant human insulin The noun recombinant human insulin comes from a lab method where scientists put the human gene for insulin into bacteria or yeast, and the word recombinant means 'joined' to make a new producer. The bacteria or yeast act like 'tiny factories' and make insulin just like the body's own, so people with diabetes can use it and often avoid allergic reactions to animal insulin.
