pancreas

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• The word “hormone” entered the medical lexicon in 1905 to describe secretions of the pancreas and was soon used for other chemical messengers produced by any of the body’s glands.

• In this autoimmune disease, the immune system attacks insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, leaving the body unable to make the insulin needed to control blood sugar levels.

• We wouldn’t think twice about trying to treat that condition if it were treating your pancreas as with diabetes, or your joints as with arthritis.

• It may strike you as strange that the artificial pancreas didn’t already exist.

• She did take some programming courses in college, but most of the skills she deployed in making her artificial pancreas were self-taught.

• The shot damaged his liver, lungs, pancreas and spleen and has left him paralyzed from the waist down.

• The internal injuries cost him his spleen and part of his pancreas, but he could skate without those.

• Eventually Jobs did have surgery, but by then it was too late—the cancer had spread beyond his pancreas.

• Steve Jobs was right to be optimistic when, in 2004, he announced that he had cancer in his pancreas.

• The surgery removes the right side of the pancreas, the gallbladder, and parts of the stomach, bile duct, and small intestine.

• In the after putrefaction, and in the fces of typhus patients, no skatol was found.