Pancreatic

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Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion,digestion, ferments. Pancreatic juice (Physiol.), a colorlessalkaline fluid secreted intermittently by the pancreatic gland. It isone of the most important of the digestive fluids, containing atleast three distinct ferments, trypsin, steapsin and an amylolyticferment, by which it acts upon all three classes of food stuffs. SeePancreas.