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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.
