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Pancreatic   Listen
adjective
Pancreatic  adj.  (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
Pancreatic juice (Physiol.), a colorless alkaline fluid secreted intermittently by the pancreatic gland. It is one of the most important of the digestive fluids, containing at least three distinct enzymes, trypsin, steapsin (lipase) and an amylase, by which it acts upon all three classes of food stuffs. See Pancreas.






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"Pancreatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the intestines, has an important function to perform. In these various organs nature manufactures five wonderful fluids for changing and dissolving the several food elements. The mouth supplies the saliva; in the walls of the stomach are little glands which produce the gastric juice; the pancreatic juice is made by the pancreas; the liver secretes bile; while scattered along the small intestines are minute glands which make the intestinal juice. Each of these fluids has a particular work to do in transforming some part of the food into suitable material for use in the body. The saliva ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg



Words linked to "Pancreatic" :   pancreas, pancreatic vein, pancreatic artery, pancreatic duct, pancreatic fibrosis



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