Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation cholecystokinin
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- initialism
Cholecystokinin .
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Examples
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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.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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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 2009
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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.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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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.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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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.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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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.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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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.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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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 2010
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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.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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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.
You: On a Diet Michael F. Roizen 2009
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