The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pancreatic \Pan`cre*at"ic\, a. [Cf. F. pancr['e]atique.] (Anat.) 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 enzymes, trypsin, steapsin (lipase) and an amylase, by which it acts upon all three classes of food stuffs. See Pancreas.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to the pancreas.
WordNet
adj. of or involving the pancreas; "pancreatic cancer"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "pancreatic".
For bringing about these changes a substance identical in function with the steapsin of the pancreatic juice has been shown to exist in several of the tissues.
Gordon went on for five minutes about the physiology of the spleen and the new drug somatostatin, which could close a pancreatic fistula in days.
A secretion is thought of as being designed to serve a useful purpose, as, for instance, is true of the pancreatic juice.
The secretin enters the bloodstream and stimulates the production of pancreatic secretion.
By blocking that key reaction, secretin may allow the pancreatic juice to be formed.
If secretin is purified and added to the bloodstream, the pancreatic juice that is produced is copious enough and alkaline enough, but it is low in enzyme content, and it is the enzymes that do the actual work of digestion.
A preparation of secretin that is less intensively purified brings about the formation of pancreatic juice adequately rich in enzymes.
I have mentioned that one of the effects of secretin is to neutralize the acidity of the stomach contents by stimulating the production of the alkaline pancreatic juice.
Whatever the pancreas did to prevent diabetes mellitus, then, had nothing to do with the ordinary pancreatic juice which in normal life was discharged through that duct.
Banting and Best took the crucial step of tying off the pancreatic duct in a living animal and waiting seven weeks before killing the animal and trying to extract the hormone from its pancreas.
Its juice, the pancreatic juice, can do everything that any other digestive juice can, and do it better.
These fats are attacked by the pancreatic juice and the bile, and made ready for digestion.
The bile is a yellowish-brown fluid, which assists the pancreatic juice in the digestion of the food, and helps to dissolve the fats eaten, but is chiefly a waste product.
Here it encounters the intestinal juice, pancreatic juice, and the bile, the secretion of all of which is stimulated by the presence of food in the alimentary tract.
Late researches have demonstrated that the pancreatic juice exerts a powerful effect on albuminous matters, not unlike that of the gastric juice.