pancreas

Innervation

• innervated by sensory, parasympathetic, sympathetic fibers
• receives neuronal input from enteric neurons of the intestine

Physiology

• glandular organ with exocrine & endocrine functions
• located in the abdominal cavity behind the stomach, its head resting on the duodenum, its tail abutting the spleen

Laboratory

• exocrine pancreas antibody
  • exocrine pancreas IgA+IgG

More general terms

• endocrine gland
• exocrine gland

More specific terms

• bionic pancreas
• uncinate process of pancreas (lesser, small, uncinate, unciform, Willis or Winslow pancreas, pancreas minus)

Additional terms

• pancreatic disease

Component of

• digestive system
• abdomen

Components

• islets of Langerhans; pancreatic islets