cholecystokinin
noun
cholecystokinin is a noun meaning “Any of several peptide hormones that stimulate the digestion of fat and protein” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-O-L-E-C-Y-S-T-O-K-I-N-I-N, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cholecystokinin is cholecystokinins.
What does cholecystokinin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several peptide hormones that stimulate the digestion of fat and protein.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cholecystokinin
- cholecystokinins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cholecystokinin?
Cholecystokinin appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate cholecystokinin?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cholecystokinin: CCK.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cholecystokinin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of several peptide hormones:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | colecistoquinina |
| Spanish | colecistoquinina |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cholecystokinin come from?
From cholecysto- + kinin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).