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pancreatic |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pancreatic \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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pancreatic adj : of or involving the pancreas; "pancreatic cancer"
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