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pancreas

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Noun
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pan=cre=as

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pancreas has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

pancreasn. [NL., fr. Gr. ; pa^s, pa^n, all + kre`as flesh, meat: cf. F. pancréas.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pancreas, n. a gland near the stomach supplying the duodenum with digestive fluid and secreting insulin into the blood.

Derivative
pancreatic adj. pancreatitis n.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk pagkreas (as PAN-, kreas -atos flesh)
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