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pancreas

[pan-kree-uhs, pang-] / ˈpæn kri əs, ˈpæŋ- /


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In the UK, the only current HSR line is High Speed 1, the 68 miles link between the Channel Tunnel and London St Pancreas.

From BBC • May 13, 2025

The teamtrialled a technology known as Hybrid Closed-Loop or Artificial Pancreas.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2023

Figure 23.26 Exocrine and Endocrine Pancreas The pancreas has a head, a body, and a tail.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Figure 17.18 Pancreas The pancreatic exocrine function involves the acinar cells secreting digestive enzymes that are transported into the small intestine by the pancreatic duct.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Pancreas, pan′krē-as, n. a conglomerate gland, lying transversely across the posterior wall of the abdomen, secreting the pancreatic juice which pours with the bile into the digestive system.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various




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