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isophane

n. 1 (context uncountable medicine English) A synthetic form of insulin used to treat diabetes 2 (context countable meteorology English) A line drawn on a map through points where a given seasonal biological event occurs on the same date

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The NPH stood for Isophane, but that was too complicated to remember, so she thought of it as No Pee Hard, which was as good a description as any.