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Pancreas
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pancreas'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pancreas.html. 1828.