PANCREAS
Pan"cre*as, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. pancréas.] (Anat.)
Defn: The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
PANCREATIC
Pan`cre*at"ic, a. Etym: [Cf. F. pancréatique.] (Anat.)
Defn: 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.
PANCREATIN
Pan"cre*a*tin, n. Etym: [See Pancreas.] (Physiol. Chem.)
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.
Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice, by others it is applied to trypsin, and by still others to steapsin.
PANCY
Pan"cy, n.
Defn: See Pansy. [Obs.] Dryden.
PANDA
Pan"da, n. (Zoöl.)