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Keywords: duct, duodenum, wirsung, vater, ampulla

Drains pancreatic enzymes into the intestines.

A tubular duct that carries pancreatic juice from the pancreas to the duodenum.

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The main excretory duct of the pancreas that flows into the common bile duct. Pancreatic secretions are basic and neutralize the acid from the gastric contents. image

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a single large tube, LETTERing with the common bile duct from the liver and the gallbladder and draining pancreatic juice into the duodenum at the hepatopancreatic ampulla (ampulla of Vater); also called the duct of Wirsung

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a duct connecting the pancreas with the intestine

wordnet.princeton.edu

duct that carries pancreatic juice, containing digestive enzymes and hormones, to the duodenum

prometheuslabs.com

Part of a system of ducts in the pancreas. Pancreatic juices containing enzymes are released into these ducts and flow into the small intestine.

cancer.gov

Duct which carries the pancreatic digestive juices form the pancreas to the small intestine.

cancerhelp.org.uk

The pancreatic duct, or duct of Wirsung, is a duct joining the pancreas to the common bile duct to supply pancreatic juices which aid in digestion provided by the "exocrine pancreas". The pancreatic duct joins the biliary tract just prior to the ampulla of Vater.

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