Definition of Pancriatic
Pan`cre*at"ic (?), a. [Cf. F.
pancréatique.] (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 ferments, trypsin, steapsin and an
amylolytic ferment, by which it acts upon all three classes of food
stuffs. See Pancreas.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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