Definitions for pancreas

pancreas pan·cre·as

Spelling: [pan-kree-uh s, pang-]
IPA: /ˈpæn kri əs, ˈpæŋ-/

Pancreas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 371 anagrams from letters in pancreas (aacenprs).

Definitions for pancreas

noun

  1. a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.

Origin of pancreas

1570-80; New Latin Greek pánkreas sweetbread, equivalent to pan- pan- + kréas flesh, meat

Examples for pancreas

The shot damaged his liver, lungs, pancreas and spleen and has left him paralyzed from the waist down.

The internal injuries cost him his spleen and part of his pancreas, but he could skate without those.

Steve Jobs was right to be optimistic when, in 2004, he announced that he had cancer in his pancreas.

What does this great combination of powers in the pancreas mean?

The liver and spleen are generally normal, as is the pancreas.

Eventually Jobs did have surgery, but by then it was too late—the cancer had spread beyond his pancreas.

Cancer of the pancreas can cause severe depression and insomnia.

So late as 1840, there was yet no clear understanding of the action of the pancreas.

The surgery removes the right side of the pancreas, the gallbladder, and parts of the stomach, bile duct, and small intestine.

The gall bladder was filled with bile, and the pancreas indurated.

Word Value for pancreas
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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