pancreas

See also: pancréas, páncreas, and pâncreas

English

Etymology

Existing in English since the sixteenth century: from Latin pancreas, from Ancient Greek πάγκρεας (pánkreas), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + κρέας (kréas, “flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋkɹɪəs/

Noun

pancreas (plural pancreases or pancreata)

1. (anatomy) A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to help with food digestion. The fluid contains protease, carbohydrase and lipase, which breaks down larger molecules into smaller pieces. The pancreas also produces the hormones insulin and glucagon which regulate blood sugar. These hormones are released into the cardiovascular system.

Synonyms

• gutbread
• stomach sweetbread
• belly sweetbread

Derived terms

Derived terms

• pancreatectomy

• pancreatic

• pancreatitis

Translations

gland near the stomach

• Afrikaans: pankreas
• Albanian: pankreasi
• Arabic: بَنْكِرْيَاس m (bankiryās), مُعَثْكَلَة f (muʕaṯkala)

  Egyptian Arabic: بنكرياس m (benkeryas)

• Armenian: ենթաստամոքսային գեղձ (hy) (entʻastamokʻsayin geġj)
• Asturian: páncrees (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: məʼdəaltı vəzi
• Basque: are (eu), pankrea
• Bengali: অগ্ন্যাশয় (bn) (ognnaśoẏ)
• Bulgarian: панкреас m (pankreas)
• Catalan: pàncrees m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胰臟／胰脏 (zh) (yízàng), 胰脏 (zh) (yízàng), 胰腺 (zh) (yíxiàn)

  Min Nan: 腰尺 (zh-min-nan) (io-chhioh)

• Czech: slinivka břišní (cs) f, pankreas (cs) m
• Danish: bugspytkirtel (da) c
• Dutch: alvleesklier (nl), buikspeekselklier, pancreas (nl)
• Esperanto: pankreato
• Estonian: kõhunääre (et), pankreas (et)
• Finnish: haima (fi)
• French: pancréas (fr) m
• Galician: páncreas m
• Georgian: პანკრეასი (ṗanḳreasi), კუჭქვეშა ჯირკვალი (ḳuč̣kveša ǯirḳvali)
• German: Bauchspeicheldrüse (de) f, Pankreas (de) n
• Greek: πάγκρεας (el) n (págkreas)

  Ancient: πάγκρεας n (pánkreas)

• Hebrew: לבלב (he) (lavlav)
• Hindi: अग्न्याशय (hi) (agnyāśay)
• Hungarian: hasnyálmirigy (hu)
• Icelandic: bris (is) n, briskirtill (is) m
• Indonesian: pankreas (id)
• Interlingua: pancreas
• Italian: pancreas (it) m
• Japanese: 膵臓 (ja) (すいぞう, suizō)
• Javanese: pankreas
• Kalmyk: нөр (nör)
• Kapampangan: kundilat, lape
• Kazakh: үйқы безі (üiqy bezı)
• Khmer: លំពែង (km) (lumpɛɛŋ)
• Korean: 이자 (ko) (ija)
• Kurdish:
• Lao: ຕັບອ່ອນ (tap-'öön)
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• Latin: pancreas f
• Latvian: aizkuņģa dziedzeris m
• Lithuanian: kasa (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Pankreas n
• Macedonian: панкреас m (pankreas)
• Malay: pankreas (ms)
• Maltese: pankreas m, frixa f
• Maori: repe-taiaki-huka
• Marathi: स्वादुपिंड n (swadu pinD')
• Mongolian: нойр булчирхай (nojr bulčirxaj)
• Navajo: alohkʼeʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bukspyttkjertel (no) m

  Nynorsk: bukspyttkjertel m

• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: لوزالمعده (fa), پانکراس (fa) (pânkrâs)
• Polish: trzustka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pâncreas (pt) m
• Quechua: suyk'upin
• Romanian: pancreas (ro)
• Russian: поджелу́дочная железа́ f (podželúdočnaja železá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гуштерача f

  Roman: gušterača (sh) f

• Sicilian: pancreas
• Slovak: podžalúdková žľaza f
• Slovene: trebušna slinavka (sl) f
• Somali: ganac
• Spanish: páncreas (es) m
• Swahili: kongosho
• Swedish: bukspottkörtel (sv) c
• Tagalog: lapay
• Tamil: கணையம் (ta) (kaṇaiyam)
• Telugu: క్లోమము (te) (klōmamu)
• Thai: ตับอ่อน (th) (dtàp-ɔ̀ɔn)
• Turkish: pankreas (tr)
• Ukrainian: підшлункова залоза f (pidšlunkova zaloza)
• Vietnamese: tụy (vi), lá mía (vi)
• Volapük: pankreat
• Welsh: cefndedyn m
• Yami: lilas
• Yiddish: פאנקרעאס n (pankreas)

See also

See also

• diabetes

• digestion

• insulin

Anagrams

• Pre-Canas

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Interlingua

Noun

pancreas (uncountable)

1. pancreas

Related terms

• pancreatic

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Italian

Noun

pancreas m (uncountable)

1. pancreas

Derived terms

• pancreatico
• pancreatina
• pancreatite

Anagrams

• spancerà