pancreas
In 18 atlases
- Adult male (BodyParts3D)
- Real CT case s0462: female, 77
- Real CT case s0616: male, 58
- Real CT case s0751: male, 62
- Real CT case s0923: female, 41
- Real CT case s0963: female, 58
and 12 more
- Real CT case s1249: female, 93
- Real CT case s1397: male, 73
- Real CT case s1580: male, 9
- Real CT case s1784: male, 33
- Real CT case s1789: female, 21
- Real CT case s2043: male, 15
- Real CT case s2075: female, 5
- Adult female organs (HuBMAP HRA)
- Adult male organs (HuBMAP HRA)
- Abdomen (SPL atlas)
- Male torso and inner organs (Voxel-Man, Visible Human)
- Adult male, detailed (Z-Anatomy)
Key points
- The pancreas lies mainly behind the stomach and extends from the duodenum towards the spleen.
- Its main regions are the head, neck, body and tail, with an uncinate process projecting from the head.
- Pancreatic tissue produces digestive secretions carried through ducts and hormones released into the blood.
- Its blood vessels, nerves and lymphatic drainage connect closely with those of neighbouring upper abdominal organs.
Definition
An endoderm derived structure that produces precursors of digestive enzymes and blood glucose regulating hormones[GO].
Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0
Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Relations
- Innervation
- pancreatic plexus, celiac ganglia, vagus nerve (X)
- Arterial supply
- inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery
- Venous drainage
- pancreaticoduodenal veins
- Lymphatic drainage
- splenic lymph nodes, Celiac lymph nodes, Superior mesenteric lymph nodes
Sub-structures
Neighbouring structures
Practice questions
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Identifiers
- TA2
- 3114
- TA98
- A05.9.01.001
- FMA
- 7198
- UBERON
- 0001264
- Wikidata
- Q9618