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Ban·ting

 (băn′tĭng), Sir Frederick Grant 1891-1941.
Canadian physician. He shared a 1923 Nobel Prize for the purification of insulin and its application to the treatment of diabetes.
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banting

(ˈbæntɪŋ) ,

bantingism

or

banteng

n
(Physiology) obsolete slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat
[C19: named after William Banting (1797–1878), London undertaker who popularized this diet]

Banting

(ˈbæntɪŋ)
n
(Biography) 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)
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Ban•ting

(ˈbæn tɪŋ)

n.
Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin.
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Noun1.Banting - Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)Banting - Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941)
F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting
2.Banting - wild ox of the Malay Archipelagobanting - wild ox of the Malay Archipelago  
banteng, Bos banteng, tsine
Bos, genus Bos - wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini
wild ox, ox - any of various wild bovines especially of the genera Bos or closely related Bibos
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