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Definition: Pancreatitis |
PancreatitisNoun1. Inflammation of the pancreas; usually marked by abdominal pain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Acute or chronic inflammation of the pancreas, which may be asymptomatic or symptomatic, and which is due to autodigestion of a pancreatic tissue by its own enzymes. It is caused most often by alcoholism or biliary tract disease; less commonly it may be associated with hyperlipaemia, hyperparathyroidism, abdominal trauma (accidental or operative injury), vasculitis, or uraemia. (references) |
Medicine | Inflammation of the pancreas, a salivary gland of the abdomen. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
It is said that pancreatitis (acute pancreatitis or chronic pancreatitis) accounts for 3% of all cases of abdominal pain in the U.K. It can be a serious condition, with very significant mortality figures if it is severe.
Gallstones that travel down the common bile duct and which subsequently get stuck in the Ampulla of Vater can cause obstruction in the outflow of pancreatic juices from the pancreas into the duodenum. The backflow of these digestive juices causes lysis of pancreatic cells and subsequent pancreatitis.
Acute Pancreatitis
Features
Causes
The most common causes of pancreatitis, accounting for more than 85% of all cases of pancreatitis in Western countries are chronic alcoholism and gallstones. Other causes include trauma (such as from a steering wheel in an automobile accident), infection (the mumps virus being the most common), drugs (lasix and thiazides are the most common ones) and cancer.Pathogenesis
The exocrine pancreas produces a variety of enzymes that breakdown food tissues, such as proteases, lipases and saccharidases. In acute pancreatitis, the worst offender among these enzymes may well be the protease trypsinogen which converts to the active trypsin which is most responsible for auto-digestion of the pancreas which causes the pain and complications of pancreatitis.Diagnosis
Important biochemical markers for pancreatitis are serum amylase and lipase levels. Amylase and lipase levels can rise to more than a hundred times normal levels in cases of acute pancreatitis.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pancreatitis."
Crosswords: Pancreatitis |
| English words defined with "pancreatitis": pancreatin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pancreatitis": Biliary Stricture ♦ Gabexate ♦ Methemalbumin, Myocardial Depressant Factor ♦ Pancreatitis, Alcoholic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pancreatitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (pancreatitis), Dutch (pancreatitis). |
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Health | Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the pancreas. (references) | |
In some cases, chronic pancreatitis is inherited. (references) | ||
Relieving pain is the first step in treating chronic pancreatitis. (references) | ||
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| "Pancreatitis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pancreatitis" is used about 329 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 329 | 15,846 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pancreatitis | 1,482 |
acute pancreatitis | 91 |
pancreatitis symptom | 78 |
chronic pancreatitis | 70 |
pancreatitis aguda | 42 |
pancreatitis diet | 28 |
pancreatitis treatment | 26 |
feline pancreatitis | 15 |
cause pancreatitis | 12 |
cat pancreatitis | 10 |
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| Language | Translations for "pancreatitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 胰腺炎. (various references) | |
Danish | pancreatitis, pancreatit. (various references) | |
Dutch | pancreatitis. (various references) | |
French | pancréatite. (various references) | |
German | Pankreatitis. (various references) | |
Greek | παγκρεατίτις. (various references) | |
Italian | pancreatite. (various references) | |
Korean | 췌장염. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ancreatitispay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pancreatite. (various references) | |
Spanish | pancreatitis. (various references) | |
Ukranian | панкреатит. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-n-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: anticipates, patriciates. | |
-2 letters: anticaries, anticipate, antiracist, antiseptic, patricians, patriciate, psittacine, rapacities. | |
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| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-i-n-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: antiparticles, paternalistic. | |
+2 letters: pancreatitides. | |
+3 letters: recapitulations. | |
+4 letters: malpractitioners, operationalistic. | |
+5 letters: australopithecine, paternalistically, recapitalizations, supernaturalistic. | |
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