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Descriptor English: Pancreas
Descriptor Spanish: Páncreas
Descriptor páncreas
Scope note: Órgano nodular, situado en el ABDOMEN, que alberga una mezcla de GLÁNDULAS ENDOCRINAS y GLÁNDULAS EXOCRINAS. La pequeña porción endocrina contiene los ISLOTES DE LANGERHANS, que segregan diversas hormonas en el torrente sanguíneo. La porción exocrina (PÁNCREAS EXOCRINO), más grande, consiste en una glándula acinar que segrega diversas enzimas digestivas que se vierten en el DUODENO a través del conducto pancreático.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pâncreas
Descriptor French: Pancréas
Tree number(s): A03.734
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010179
Scope note: A nodular organ in the ABDOMEN that contains a mixture of ENDOCRINE GLANDS and EXOCRINE GLANDS. The small endocrine portion consists of the ISLETS OF LANGERHANS secreting a number of hormones into the blood stream. The large exocrine portion (EXOCRINE PANCREAS) is a compound acinar gland that secretes several digestive enzymes into the pancreatic ductal system that empties into the DUODENUM.
Annotation: /enzymol: consider also PANCREATIN for "pancreatic enzymes" particularly in ther; /surg: consider also PANCREATECTOMY; note that ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION is also available; inflammation = PANCREATITIS; pancreatic A, B, C cells: index under ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; D cells = SOMATOSTATIN-SECRETING CELLS
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IN injuries
IR innervation
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Entry Combination: transplantation:Pancreas Transplantation
Related: Pancreatectomy MeSH
Pancreaticojejunostomy MeSH
DeCS ID: 10367
Unique ID: D010179
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2005/07/01
Pancreas - Preferred
Concept UI M0015790
Scope note A nodular organ in the ABDOMEN that contains a mixture of ENDOCRINE GLANDS and EXOCRINE GLANDS. The small endocrine portion consists of the ISLETS OF LANGERHANS secreting a number of hormones into the blood stream. The large exocrine portion (EXOCRINE PANCREAS) is a compound acinar gland that secretes several digestive enzymes into the pancreatic ductal system that empties into the DUODENUM.
Preferred term Pancreas



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