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  Banting

  noun

  Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
• banting
  banting

  noun

  slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat

Banting

American  

[ban-ting] / ˈbæn tɪŋ /

noun

1. Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.

2. (often lowercase) Bantingism.

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banting ¹ British  

/ ˈbæntɪŋ /

noun

1. obsolete slimming by avoiding eating sugar, starch, and fat

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Banting ² British  

/ ˈbæntɪŋ /

noun

1. 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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Banting Scientific  

/ băn′tĭng /

1. 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.

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Etymology

Origin of banting

C19: named after William Banting (1797–1878), London undertaker who popularized this diet

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Example Sentences

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One of the University of Toronto researchers who made the discovery, Frederick Banting, sold his share of the patent for $1 because, he said, “Insulin does not belong to me. It belongs to the world.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

Two months later, Malaysia revoked permits for some plastic imports after factories involved in recycling in Banting, south-west of Kuala Lumpur, were forced to close amid residents’ complaints of air and water pollution.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2018

Banting and his colleagues sold their insulin patents for a dollar each, aiming to get the medicine distributed as far and wide as possible.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2018

M.O’T. is supported by the Government of Canada through the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships programme.

From Nature ● Mar. 4, 2018

Sang “Streptocock-Gee to Banbury-T” and “Bye Baby Banting, soon you’ll need decanting.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

The first occasion, in 1919, was to restrict debate on the Treaty of Versailles; the second, in 1926, on the World Court debate; the third, last week, on the McFadden-Pepper branching banting bill debate.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

And by all means let him consult a qualified physician if he fears either that he is overdoing or underdoing his banting.

From One Third Off by Tony Sarg

Not so bad, after all, this banting at Marienbad, he reflected.

From Visionaries by James Huneker

Where do you find the stout woman who is banting as she pants and panting as she bants?

From Cobb's Bill-of-Fare by Peter Newell

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