pancreas : Idioms & Phrases

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fibrocystic disease of the pancreas

  • noun the most common congenital disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known
    mucoviscidosis; CF; cystic fibrosis; pancreatic fibrosis.
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hepato-pancreas

Hep"a*to-pan"cre*as noun
Etymology
Gr. "h^par, "h`patos, the liver + E. pancreas.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.
Webster 1913