The pancreas is a gland which furnishes a strongly alkaline liquid neutralizing the acid of the gastric juice, so that the gastric agent, pepsin, loses its power.
The food then enters the smaller intestine, at the beginning of which the juices from the pancreas are added.
Thus it is found that the muscles and skin act as the chief water depot, while such tissues as the liver, intestines or pancreas take a relatively small share in the exchange.
For the development of the mouth, pharynx, lungs, liver and pancreas from the primitive alimentary canal, the reader is referred to the special articles on those structures.
By confounding them with the lymphatics, he made them proceed to the pancreas and liver--a mistake which appears to have been first rectified by Francis de le Boe.
Into this tube at various points the salivary glands, liver and pancreas pour their secretions by special ducts.
The duodenum is not a U-shaped loop, but makes one together with the stomach; the pancreas lies between it and the stomach, and is more compact than the rabbit's.
The pancreatic juice, the secretion of the pancreas is remarkable as acting on all the food stuffs that have not already become soluble.
This accounts for the fact that the pancreasand duodenum are only covered by peritoneum on their anterior surfaces in man.
From the spleen it runs to the right once more, in front of the pancreas (P), until the inferior vena cava (V.
Into the dorsal mesentery the pancreas grows, also as diverticula, from the duodenum, while the spleen is developed from the mesoderm contained in the same fold.
I saw what I conjectured to be a tumour of the pancreas with indigestion, and which terminated in the death of the patient.
Thus if the spleen or pancreas are primarily or secondarily affected, so as to be rendered torpid or quiescent, they are liable to become enlarged, and to remain so even after the extinction of the fever-fit.
He claims that when the pancreas does not furnish an efficient secretion, the proteins of the food fail to be converted into amino-acids, and instead, raise the percentage of urea.
Furthermore, if pancreas were really efficacious in the treatment of diabetes mellitus, the addition of arsenic, of gold, of bromid would be entirely unnecessary.
Some observers have claimed that secretin is absent in cases of diabetes in which the pancreas is still found normal.
It is usually present, and if not present, as in achylia gastrica, there is evidently some compensating arrangement by which the pancreas is stimulated to perform its regular functions.
In such cases the pancreas and liver must be stimulated to secretion by some other mechanism than secretin.
While great claims have been made for Trypsogen and while it has been most widely advertised, it is the consensus of opinion of the most eminent students of the question that pancreas is not really efficacious in diabetes.
Defn: The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
Defn: One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.
The pancreas contains but little ready-made ferment, though there is present in it a body, zymogen, which gives birth to the ferment.
It is obtained from the pancreas of recently killed animals by treating the colourless, viscous juice with alcohol, and drying the precipitate in vacuo.
Cut the fresh pancreas of the pig, freed from fat and all foreign matters, into small pieces, and digest with ether.
The bladder, uterus, even the pancreas and the liver seem to be influenced by the peripheral effects of the central excitement.
Diseases of the brain or pancreas may be treated according to their indications.
Irritation carried to this point through the pneumogastric nerve causes saccharine urine, and, in keeping with this, disease of the pancreas has been found in this malady.
One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.
The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
These glands have the same office as have the liver and pancreas combined in the toad, and so they are often called the hepato-pancreas.
The pyloric caeca secrete a fluid which is poured into the alimentary canal and which assists in the process of digestion somewhat as does the secretion from the pancreas of the toad.
At the anterior end of the pancreas is a dark-red nodular structure, the spleen.
Near the upper end of the pancreas note a round nodular structure, generally dark red.
The pancreas being the most active and most important of these, it would be desirable to have some agent which could excite its gland-structure to greater activity.
Cancer of the gall-bladder, and especially of the organized exudation about it, may not be readily separated from cancer of the pancreas or of the duodenum.
In the first stage secondary peritonitis may arise from a simple extension of the inflammatory process, and bands of lymph are formed, gluing the pancreas to the neighboring organs.
The pancreas is also closely associated with the stomach, and its secretion is of essential value in the digestive process.
The pancreas has been most extensively studied by Birch-Hirschfeld, who examined seventy-three syphilitic foetuses.
A well-made liquid extract of pancreas is made and sold by Metcalfe of Boston, and a solid extract by Fairchild Bros.
The management of secondary inflammation of the pancreas is regulated solely by the indications derived from the originating disease.
The pancreas not only acts upon albuminous substances, but also upon starch.
The ducts from the liver and pancreas open into the perpendicular portion, about six inches from the stomach.
The pancreas with its duct, through which the pancreatic secretion passes into the duodenum.
Each villus contains a net-work of blood-vessels, and a lacteal tube, into which the ducts from the liver and pancreas open, and pour their secretions to assist in the conversion of the chyme into chyle.
In a similar way, the pancreaspours out a fluid that digests the fats.
Simple growths of the salivary glands, cysts of the pancreas and polypoid tumours of the rectum are the most frequent.
The pancreas occasionally is the seat of cancerous growth.
Lieutaud has seen the pancreasmissing and speaks of a double pancreatic duct that he found in a man who died from starvation; Bonet speaks of a case similar to this last.
Bausch mentions a case in which the omentum, stomach, and pancreas were found in the thoracic cavity, having protruded through an extensive opening in the diaphragm.
The thymus and thyroid glands and the pancreasare included under the term sweetbreads.
Longitudinal section through portions of the stomach, liver, and duodenum of an embryo about a month after hatching, to shew the relations of the pancreas (p) to the surrounding parts.
The pancreas at a later stage is placed immediately behind the end of the liver in a loop formed by the pyloric section of the stomach (Plate 40, fig.
The similarity in the development of the pancreas in Lepidosteus to that of the same gland in Elasmobranchii is very striking[549].
The pancreas arises towards the close of stage K as a somewhat rounded hollow outgrowth from the dorsal side of that part of the gut which from its homologies may be called the duodenum.
In the embryo there is a well-developed pancreas which arises in the same position and the same manner as in those Vertebrata in which the pancreas is an important gland in the adult.
We believe that the pancreas of Lepidosteus has hitherto been overlooked.
These conclusions render intelligible, moreover, the great development of the pancreas in the Elasmobranchii.
Pancreas (pan) and adjoining part of the alimentary tract in longitudinal section, from an embryo between stages L and M.
Owing to these changes the pancreas presents in longitudinal and vertical section a funnel-shaped appearance (Pl.
Considering the undoubted affinities between Lepidosteus and the Teleostei, the facts just recorded with reference to the pancreasappear to us to demonstrate that the small size and occasional absence (?
Transverse section through the developingpancreas (p) of a larva 11 millims.
In the region where the pancreas is being formed the appearances presented in a series of transverse sections are somewhat complicated (Pl.
We have first noticed the pancreas in a stage shortly after hatching (Plate 40, fig.
It may be noted that the liver and pancreasare corresponding ventral and dorsal appendages of the part of the alimentary tract immediately in front of its junction with the yolk-sack.
A small, apparently glandular, mass closely connected with the bile duct, in the position in which we have seen the pancreas in the larva (Plate 40, figs.
For about an inch from this cyst, the track of the ball behind the pancreas was completely obliterated by the healing process.
Beyond the first lumbar vertebra, the bullet continued to go to the left, passing behind the pancreas to the point where it was found.
Direct cause of death--Gangrene of both walls of stomach and pancreas following gunshot wound.
Cause, gangrene of both walls of stomach and pancreas following gunshot wound.
I can lawfully state that I think their liver tests weak, the pancreas appears not to be functioning well in terms of handling meat digestion, that the kidney is having a hard time of it.
Her pancreas was now too weak to digest the legumes that made up a large part of her vegetarian diet.
Sometimes a stressed-out pancreas gets overactive and does too good a job lowering the blood sugar, producing hypoglycemia.
Enzymes that digest proteins are effective only in the very acid environment of the stomach, are manufactured by the pancreas and are released when protein foods are present.
When the diet contains either too much protein or too much sugar and/or high-glycemic index starch foods, the overworked pancreas begins to be less and less efficient at maintaining both of these functions.
If the hypoglycemic then keeps on eating sugar to relieve the symptoms of sugar ingestion, eventually the pancreas becomes exhausted, producing an insulin deficiency, called diabetes.
The causes are usually considered mysterious: we don't know why thepancreas is acting up, etc.
The insulin-cycle overworked pancreasmay eventually not be able to secrete enough enzymes to allow for the efficient digestion of foods high in protein.
These were secondary to a toxic colon, toxic because she had a weak gall bladder and weak pancreas that reduced her digestive capacity and turned her improperly combined Organic, vegetarian legume-rich diet into toxemia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pancreas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: absorption; assimilation; bile; digestion; gland; ingestion; liver
