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A European amarylidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum).
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A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.
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A name given to handsome flowering plants of several genera, having some resemblance in color or form to a true lily, as Pancratium, Crinum, Amaryllis, Nerine, etc.
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Pancratic; athletic.
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Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
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The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
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Alt. of Pancratical
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The pancreas.
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A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.
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Of or pertaining to the pancratium.
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A white crystalline nitrogenous substance present in small amount in the pancreas and spleen, and formed in large quantity from the decomposition of proteid matter by various means, -- as by pancreatic digestion, by putrefaction as of cheese, by the action of boiling acids, etc. Chemically, it consists of oxyphenol and amidopropionic acid, and by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative.
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An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice. It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.
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The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.
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Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.
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One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
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The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
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Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
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One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.
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A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.
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A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
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