pancreatic duct n.
The excretory duct of the pancreas, extending through the gland from tail to head, where it empties into the duodenum. Also called Wirsung's canal.
The pancreatic duct thus joining the bile-duct was sometimes the main duct, sometimes the accessory smaller duct.
This gland is the pancreas, and the duct is the pancreatic duct.
In the calf the pancreatic duct opens into the duodenum 15′ beyond the bile-duct and 3′ beyond the pylorus.
Fatty diarrhoea is believed to follow occlusion of the pancreatic duct by pancreatic calculi and chronic catarrh of the duct.
It is just beyond where the pancreatic duct reaches the intestine in both animals that the digestion of fat begins.
He was professor of anatomy at Padua, where he discovered and explained the pancreatic duct.