pancreatic duct

/ păng′krē-ăt′ĭk /

The excretory duct of the pancreas, extending through the gland from tail to head, where it empties into the duodenum.

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Example Sentences

It is just beyond where the pancreatic duct reaches the intestine in both animals that the digestion of fat begins.

This gland is the pancreas, and the duct is the pancreatic duct.

Fatty diarrhoea is believed to follow occlusion of the pancreatic duct by pancreatic calculi and chronic catarrh of the duct.

In certain amphibians, as the frog, the single pancreatic duct opens into the common bile duct (Fig. 197).

In the calf the pancreatic duct opens into the duodenum 15′ beyond the bile-duct and 3′ beyond the pylorus.

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