A nodular organ in the ABDOMEN that contains a mixture of ENDOCRINE GLANDS and EXOCRINE GLANDS. The small endocrine portion consists of the ISLETS OF LANGERHANS secreting a number of hormones into the blood stream. The large exocrine portion (EXOCRINE PANCREAS) is a compound acinar gland that secretes several digestive enzymes into the pancreatic ductal system that empties into the DUODENUM.
    

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The pancreas and the pancreatic duct. Engraving after J.G. Wirsung, 1644.

De succo pancreatico: or a physical and anatomical treatise of the nature and office of the pancreatick juice shewing its generation in the body, what diseases arise by its vitiation : from whence in particular, by plain and familiar examples, is accurately demonstrated, the causes and cures of agues, or intermitting feavers, hitherto so difficult and uncertain, with sundry other things of worthy note / written by D. Reg. de Graaf ... ; and translated by Christopher Pack.

All of the active derivatives of the pancreas necessary for the treatment of diabetes : Trypsogen.

Tractatus anatomico-medicus de succi pancreatici natura et usu / authore Regnero de Graaf, medico delfensi. [Epistola ad ... Lucam Schacht ... de partibus genitalibus mulierum].

Nerves of the liver, gall bladder, pancreas and stomach. Line engraving (by Wooding?), 1789.

The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. Vol. 3, A compilation of paintings on the normal and pathologic anatomy of the digestive system / prepared by Frank H. Netter ; edited by Ernst Oppenheimer.

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The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. Vol. 3, A compilation of paintings on the normal and pathologic anatomy of the digestive system / prepared by Frank H. Netter ; edited by Ernst Oppenheimer.

Recherches sur le pancréas, ses fonctions, et ses altérations organiques ... / par Ph. J. Gustave Bécourt.

Chemistry of pancreatic diseases / by Harris Busch.

The surgical treatment of cysts of the pancreas / by N. Senn.