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Meaning of PANCREATIC

Pronunciation:  `pankree'atik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  of or involving the pancreas; "pancreatic cancer"
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pan`cre*at"ic\, a. [Cf. F. pancr['e]atique.] (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 ferments, trypsin, steapsin and an
   amylolytic ferment, by which it acts upon all three
   classes of food stuffs. See {Pancreas}.
 
Medical Dictionary
 
 Definition: Having to do with the pancreas.
 

 

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