Synonyms for pancreas
ˈpæn kri əs, ˈpæŋ-pan·creas

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1. pancreasnoun

   Synonyms:
   stomach sweetbread, gutbread

2. pancreasnoun

   A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to help with food digestion. The fluid contains protease, carbohydrase and lipase, which breaks down larger molecules into smaller pieces. The pancreas also produces the hormones insulin and glucagon which regulate blood sugar. These hormones are released into the cardiovascular system.

   Synonyms:
   gutbread, stomach sweetbread

Princeton's WordNet

1. pancreasnoun

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

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1. • Exocrine Gland

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1. List of paraphrases for "pancreas":

   pancreatic, pancreatitis

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1. Sarah Rueven:

   As for blood sugar, what is likely to happen is that as an abnormally high level of sugar rushes into your bloodstream, your pancreas releases a larger than normal level of insulin to help store or utilize those sugars, which is that sugar ‘high’ and then ‘crash,’.

2. Maryann McLaughlin:

   It causes what we call insulin resistance, that your body becomes resistant to the function of your insulin, and if you lose that weight around the pancreas, the actual insulin-producing cells can work more efficiently. And sugar can then be better controlled.

3. Jean Kerr:

   I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas

4. Rudy Tanzi:

   The elephant in the room is that we wait until the brain deteriorates to the point of dysfunction before we treat this disease, that's like saying wait until you lose half of the beta cells in your pancreas before we diagnose diabetes.

5. Roxanne Yamaguchi Moster:

   However, an internal investigation determined that CRE bacteria may have been transmitted during a procedure that uses this specialized scope to diagnose and treat pancreaticobiliary (disorders of the bile ducts, gall bladder or pancreas).