pancreas
/ˈpæŋ.kɹi.əs/ sustantivo C1En español: páncreas
- A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to assist with food digestion.
Plural pancreases
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In October 1920, while preparing a lecture, he read an article about the pancreas and, according to a story he often told, woke in the middle of the night to write down an idea.
Scientists already suspected that small groups of cells in the pancreas produced a substance that controlled blood sugar, but every attempt to extract it had failed.
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