pancreas: [16] Etymologically, pancreas means ‘all-flesh’. It is a modern Latin adaptation of Greek págkreas, a compound formed from the prefix pan- ‘all’ and kréas ‘flesh’. This was presumably an allusion to the homogeneous substance of the organ. The term sweetbread, denoting the ‘pancreas used as food’, also dates from the 16th century. The -bread element may represent Old English brǣd ‘flesh’ rather than modern English bread. => raw
pancreas (n.)
1570s, from Latinized form of Greek pankreas "sweetbread (pancreas as food), pancreas," literally "entirely flesh," from pan- "all" (see pan-) + kreas "flesh" (see raw), probably on notion of homogeneous substance of the organ.
双语例句
1. Insulin is secreted by the pancreas.
胰岛素是胰腺分泌的。
来自《权威词典》
2. There are about 1.5 million islets is the pancreas.
胰腺里大约有一百五十万个胰岛.
来自辞典例句
3. Duodenun is joined to the liver and to the pancreas by ducts.
十二指肠通过导管与肝和胰相连.
来自辞典例句
4. Insulin is secreted by beta cells, specialized cells in the pancreas.
胰岛素是由胰腺中的特种细胞β细胞分泌的.
来自辞典例句
5. Another possible way to control juvenile - onset diabetes is the pancreas transplant.
