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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. abbr. cholecystokinin.

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  1. Cholecystokinin.

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  • “A smart salad is quick to stimulate that satiety hormone called CCK when eaten prior to the meal, and so a dish of mixed greens can give even an American eater a run for the money.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET

  • “While there is no certainty about these mechanisms, exercise appears to reduce panic caused by carbon dioxide as well as panic caused by a hormone called CCK-4.”

    Srinivasan Pillay: Dealing With Recession Panic: The Science of Physical Exercise

  • “The key messenger switching the vagus on is a peptide produced in your gastrointestinal track called CCK, which is released when your bowel senses fat.”

    Simon & Schuster: You: On a Diet

  • “With Drupal, you use something called CCK (Content Construction Kit) to define new content types at a much finer level with their own metadata, workflows, permissioning and processing.”

    Techworld.com News

  • “They’re also influenced by ghrelin coming from your stomach, which stimulates NPY so you get hungry, and leptin from your fat, which is further stimulated by a chemical called CCK, released from your intestines after a meal.”

    Simon & Schuster: You: On a Diet

  • “Police say they are part of vandal group known as "CCK," or "crazy, cracka, killas.”

    WPXI.com - Local News

  • “Pine nut oil contains pinolenic acid, a fatty acid that stimulates the body to produce two natural appetite suppressants: the hormones cholecystokinin (CCK) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1).”

    Simon & Schuster: The Flex Diet

  • ““Fat in the Intestine as a Regulator of Appetite—Role of CCK.””

    Simon & Schuster: The Flex Diet

  • “We will take images during the injection of CCK and continue for about 20 minutes after the dose is complete.”

    DSIDA (Hepatobiliary) Scan

  • “Your child's physician may order a DISIDA scan with CCK (cholecystokinin); a hormone produced in the body.”

    DSIDA (Hepatobiliary) Scan

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