Definition of "cortin" []

• An adrenal cortex extract that contains a mixture of hormones including cortisone. (noun)

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• "By that time biochemists had sufficient experience with hormones to be quite certain that the OUR ADRENAL CORTEX -7 extract, called cortin, had to contain at least one hormone."
• "Huius per tria latera dependent retia seu cortin� de cordulis sericis, in quibus ad singulos nodos, grossa margarita habetur innexa, quibus cortinis tegitur officina: in eius concauitate tenetur tumba quadrata, in qua conueniunt conductus omnium potuum, qui bibuntur in Curia, et innumera vasorum genera, quibus potus omnibus ministratur."
• "In conjunction with Kendall, Hench began to treat cases of chronic rheumatoid arthritis with cortin, but without success."