pancreasin a sentence
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They investigated a problem with the pancreas after noticing abdominal pain that worsened with eating.
pancreas = a large elongated gland located behind the stomach that secretes digestive enzymes and insulin
- Sweetbread is made from the pancreas of a calf.† (source)
- The pancreas.† (source)
- "Yeah, and a demon who can only be nourished by the pancreases of young boys could also be there," he said.† (source)
- Gey gave his lab staff careful instructions for growing GeGe, a line of cancer cells taken from his pancreas.† (source)
- Something in his pancreas, the other one said.† (source)
- Liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines, pancreas.† (source)
- As part of the surgery, Dr. Zeh removed not only the tumor, but my gallbladder, a third of my pancreas, a third of my stomach, and several feet of my small intestine.† (source)
- Little by little, as he lay with his eyes closed after his daily siesta, he had begun to feel them, one by one, inside his body, feel the shape of his insomniac heart, his mysterious liver, his hermetic pancreas, and he had slowly discovered that even the oldest people were younger than he was and that he had become the only survivor of his generation's legendary group portraits.† (source)
- Characteristically, VHL causes tumors in the lung, kidneys, heart, spleen, liver, adrenal glands, and pancreas.† (source)
- According to her, things like your kidneys and pancreas didn't work properly unless you kept having sex.† (source)
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- He'd had cancer of the pancreas and in the end of the liver, and Ishmael had not been there at the final moment.† (source)
- And from the scans, it's metastasized to your pancreas and lungs.† (source)
- The pancreas I reserve for being struck by all that's been lost.† (source)
- 'That's his pancreas, you dope.† (source)
- Weaving its way through the drunks in the hotel restaurant, her body sagged under the weight of the beers on the tray, and her soul lay somewhere at the level of the stomach or pancreas.† (source)
- Then about the pancreas, diabetes ….† (source)
- It had originally been a port-red color—and by lamplight, at least, still was—but it now featured a number of rather pancreas-shaped faded spots, unsentimental mementos, all, of a series of household pets.† (source)
- We'd go with half a liver, one heart, one pancreas, two arms …. but we were still ShivaMarion.† (source)
- The question implies that if your internist's name is unfamiliar, you are certain to die of a mushroom-shaped tumor on your pancreas.† (source)
- The pancreas!† (source)
- Deep down, I think she knew how serious it was, and by the time she finally went in to see the doctor, the cancer had spread to her pancreas and liver.† (source)
- He knew what it meant when cancer metastasized, he knew what it meant to have cancer not only in his stomach, but also in his pancreas.† (source)
- The cancer, she'd learned, had metastasized from his stomach to his pancreas and lungs, and holding out hope seemed dangerous.† (source)
- The real excitement during Freshman year was the incident of Clif Clawson and the pancreas.† (source)
- Unfortunately the Reverend Ira Hinkley, who sat between Martin and Angus Duer, had seen Clif drop the pancreas.† (source)
- He assembled the class, he lamented that any Winnemac Man could place a pancreas in a banker's hat, and he demanded that the criminal be manly enough to stand up and confess.† (source)
- Dr. Stout and the secretary comforted him; they cleaned the derby and assured him that vengeance should be done on the man who could put a pancreas in a banker's hat.† (source)
- Now a pancreas is a damp and disgusting thing to find in your new hat, and when the banker did so find one, he threw down the hat and said that the students of Winnemac had gone to the devil.† (source)
- In the midst of the tour, led by Dr. Stout and the umbrella-carrying secretary of the University, the plumpest and most educational of all the bankers stopped near Clif Clawson's dissecting-table, with his derby hat reverently held behind him, and into that hat Clif dropped a pancreas.† (source)
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