PANCREAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pancreas mean? 

• PANCREAS (noun)
  The noun PANCREAS has 1 sense:

1. a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin

  Familiarity information: PANCREAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANCREAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("pancreas" is a kind of...):

duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)

Meronyms (parts of "pancreas"):

pancreatic duct (a duct connecting the pancreas with the intestine)

islands of Langerhans; isles of Langerhans; islets of Langerhans (cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ; secrete insulin and other hormones)

Holonyms ("pancreas" is a part of...):

digestive system; gastrointestinal system; systema alimentarium; systema digestorium (the system that makes food absorbable into the body)

Derivation:

pancreatic (of or involving the pancreas)

 Context examples 

A test used to help find out if secretion of pancreatic polypeptide (a protein released by the pancreas) is normal or caused by a tumor.

(Atropine suppression test, NCI Dictionary)

A benign, non-metastasizing neoplasm arising from the exocrine pancreas.

(Benign Exocrine Pancreas Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm arising from the pancreas.

(Benign Pancreatic Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

PSCA is a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked cell surface antigen found in cancers of the bladder, pancreas, and prostate.

(Anti-PSCA Monoclonal Antibody AGS-1C4D4, NCI Thesaurus)

It is produced mainly in the pancreas and salivary glands.

(Amylase, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to help diagnose gastrinomas (tumors that cause too much gastric acid to be made) and other problems with the pancreas.

(ChiRhoStim, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to treat cancers of the breast, stomach, and pancreas, and certain types of colorectal and head and neck cancers.

(Adrucil, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to treat advanced cancer of the stomach and pancreas that has not gotten better with other treatment.

(mitomycin C, NCI Dictionary)

Also called beta cell tumor of the pancreas, insulinoma, and pancreatic insulin-producing tumor.

(Beta cell neoplasm, NCI Dictionary)

A substance made by the pancreas.

(C Peptide, NCI Dictionary)