Crossword-Solution: PANCREAS
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| Pancreas | n. | 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
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greedy person
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Sentences with PANCREAS (5)
The Pancreas.--Lieutaud has seen the pancreas missing and speaks of a double pancreatic duct that he found in a man who died from starvation; Bonet speaks of a case similar to this last.
Bausch mentions a case in which the omentum, stomach, and pancreas were found in the thoracic cavity, having protruded through an extensive opening in the diaphragm.
Heidenhain records a very severe and prolonged case caused, as shown later at the operation and postmortem examination, by carcinoma of the pancreas.
Then, in the last third of the century, came in rapid succession the demonstration of the relations of the pancreas to diabetes, of the vital importance of the thyroid gland and of the pituitary body.
Almost coincidently, in 1836, it was discovered by Purkinje and Pappenheim that another organ than the stomach--namely, the pancreas--has a share in digestion, and in the course of the ensuing decade it came to be known, through the efforts of Eberle, Valentin, and Claude Bernard, that this organ is all-important in the digestion of starchy and fatty foods.
Quotes with PANCREAS (3)
He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
I was an infant when my parents died. Thye both were ornithologists. I've tried So often to evoke them that today I have a thousand parents. Sadly they Dissolve in their own virtues and recede, But certain words, chance words I hear or read, Such as "bad heart" always to him refer, And "cancer of the pancreas" to her.
I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1985–2024).