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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

Three notable Glandules are also observ'd therein, the greatest whereof lies in the middle, and is nam'd Asellius's Pancreas; the two other lesser are call'd Lumbar Glandules, as being situated near the Left Kidney.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel




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