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 br?d ‘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.
雙語例句
1. Insulin is secreted by the pancreas.
胰島素是胰腺分泌的。
來自《權威詞典》
2. There are about 1.5 million islets is the pancreas.
胰腺里大約有一百五十萬個胰島.
來自辭典例句
3. Duodenun is joined to the liver and to the pancreas by ducts.
十二指腸通過導管與肝和胰相連.
來自辭典例句
4. Insulin is secreted by beta cells, specialized cells in the pancreas.
胰島素是由胰腺中的特種細胞β細胞分泌的.
來自辭典例句
5. Another possible way to control juvenile - onset diabetes is the pancreas transplant.