Usually means: Gland producing insulin and enzymes.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pancreas: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pancreas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pancreas: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pancreas: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pancreas: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pancreas, pancreas: Wordnik
  7. pancreas: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pancreas (tail), Pancreas: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. pancreas: Wiktionary
  10. pancreas: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pancreas: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pancreas: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pancreas: Dictionary.com
  14. pancreas: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pancreas: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pancreas (disambiguation), Pancreas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pancreas: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pancreas: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pancreas: Rhymezone
  20. Pancreas: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pancreas: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pancreas: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. pancreas: Free Dictionary
  24. pancreas: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pancreas: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pancreas: Encyclopedia

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

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