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dnephi

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What's the pleural of pancreas?

on: April 22, 2008, 05:35:25 AM

Please, enlighten me, and pardon the pun in the spelling of plural.

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ilikepie

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Re: What's the pleural of pancreas?

Reply #1 on: April 22, 2008, 07:59:44 AM

pancreases or pancreata ;o

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dana_minmin

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Re: What's the pleural of pancreas?

Reply #2 on: April 22, 2008, 02:00:44 PM

why asking its plural?
you have more than one?

donate some of them and be a hero

no offence, just kidding.

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dnephi

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Re: What's the pleural of pancreas?

Reply #3 on: April 22, 2008, 05:15:36 PM

Yes, we have two pancreata. Ours are diffuse and spread along the dorsal mesentery and we can not clearly differentiate the dorsal and ventral lobes.
Sharks, Necturus, and more basal vertebrates have two separate lobes which form as evaginations off of the duodenum.

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dana_minmin

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Re: What's the pleural of pancreas?

Reply #4 on: April 23, 2008, 01:27:29 AM

two lobes count as one right?

we have two lobes of pituitary (anterior and posterior) but we say we have one pituitary. or I'm wrong?

are you a medical student?

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dnephi

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Re: What's the pleural of pancreas?

Reply #5 on: April 23, 2008, 02:34:36 AM

I suppose you're right. They are just one pancreas, but they have two lobes. I don't know about the pituitary- I haven't run into that one yet in dissection.

I'm a Physics/Biology double major going into Biophysics in grad school.

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