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Definition of Pancreas

1. Noun. A large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin.

Definition of Pancreas

1. n. The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

Definition of Pancreas

1. Noun. (anatomy) A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to help with food digestion. The fluid contains protease, carbohydrase and lipase, which breaks down larger molecules into smaller pieces. The pancreas also produces the hormones insulin and glucagon which regulate blood sugar. These hormones are released into the cardiovascular system. '''Hviveldyr''' by Jørgensen, Jørgen M. ''(Danish author)'', ISBN 978-87-02-07684-4 ¹

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Definition of Pancreas

1. a large gland [n -ES]

Medical Definition of Pancreas

1. A tongue-shaped glandular organ lying below and behind the stomach. The head of the pancreas is encircled by the duodenum and its tail touches the spleen. It secretes the hormones insulin and glucagon (both regulate blood sugar), in addition to pancreatic enzymes involved in the digestion of fats and proteins in the small intestine. (27 Sep 1997)

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Literary usage of Pancreas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The pancreas of the calf is used for food under the name of the 'stomach ... Unlike the other abdominal organs the pancreas does not have a special artery ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"The pancreas («ai-*pta$, all flesh) is a conglomerate gland, analogous in its structure to the salivary glands. In shape it is transversely oblong, ..."

3. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"intestines, and pancreas, reports fifteen cases of primary carcinoma of the pancreas occurring in forty-one hundred autopsies made at the Charing Cross ..."

4. The Lancet (1898)
"JD MALCOLM : REMOVAL OF A MULTILOCULAR CYST OF pancreas. [JAH. 29,1898. avoidable risk of injury. The patient was aleo seen by Dr. ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"He observed that the duodenal mucosa was destroyed, while the pancreas remained ... A New Function of the pancreas and its Relation to Diabetes Mellitus. ..."

6. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie, James Wardrop (1833)
"DISEASED APPEARANCES OF THE pancreas. other. When the pancreas in any part assumes the scirrhous structure, that part loses entirely its natural appearance, ..."

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