Banting
[ ban-ting ]
/ ˈbæn tɪŋ /
noun
Sir Frederick Grant,1891–1941,
Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
(often lowercase)
Bantingism.
Definition for bantings (2 of 2)
banteng
[ ban-teng ]
/ ˈbæn tɛŋ /
noun, plural ban·tengs, (especially collectively) ban·ting.
a wild ox, Bos banteng (javanicus), of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, resembling the domestic cow: now greatly reduced in number.
Also
ban·ting
[bahn-ting] /ˈbɑn tɪŋ/.
Origin of banteng
< Indonesian Malay
banténg < Javanese
banṭéng
British Dictionary definitions for bantings (1 of 2)
banting
/ (ˈbæntɪŋ) /
noun
obsolete
slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat
Word Origin for banting
C19: named after William
Banting (1797–1878), London undertaker who popularized this diet
British Dictionary definitions for bantings (2 of 2)
Banting
/ (ˈbæntɪŋ) /
noun
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)
Medical definitions for bantings
Banting
[ băn′tĭng ]
Canadian physiologist. He shared a 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery and successful clinical application of insulin.
Scientific definitions for bantings
Banting
[ băn′tĭng ]
Canadian physician who with the Scottish physiologist John Macleod won a 1923 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the hormone insulin. Banting and his assistant Charles Best experimented on diabetic dogs, demonstrating that insulin lowered their blood sugar. Insulin was tested and proven effective on humans within months of the first experiments with dogs. In acknowledgment of Best's work, Banting gave him a share of his portion of the Nobel Prize.