Usually means: Gland producing insulin and enzymes.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pancreas: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pancreas: Merriam-Webster
  3. pancreas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pancreas: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pancreas: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pancreas: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pancreas, pancreas: Wordnik
  8. pancreas: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pancreas (tail), Pancreas: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. pancreas: Wiktionary
  11. pancreas: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pancreas: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pancreas: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. pancreas: Dictionary.com
  15. pancreas: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. pancreas: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Pancreas (disambiguation), Pancreas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Pancreas: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. pancreas: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. pancreas: Rhymezone
  21. Pancreas: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. pancreas: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. pancreas: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. pancreas: FreeDictionary.org
  25. pancreas: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. pancreas: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pancreas: Encyclopedia

Medicine (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. pancreas: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pancreas: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Pancreas: Merck Manuals
  7. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. pancreas: Sound Alike Words
  9. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Pancreas: Anatomy of the Human Body
  11. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  12. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  13. Pancreas: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  14. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  15. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  17. pancreas: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  18. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  19. pancreas: Medical dictionary
  20. Obesity, Physical Activity, and Weight-control Glossary (No longer online)
  21. Pancreas: Drug Medical Dictionary
  22. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pancreas: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (anatomy) A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to assist with food digestion.

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