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What body part's name comes from the Greek for "all flesh"

Question #128001. Asked by sb22705.
Last updated Oct 12 2016.

shorthumbz

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shorthumbz

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The Pancreas comes from Greek for "all flesh" or "entirely flesh".

1570s, from Latinized form of Greek pankreas "sweetbread (pancreas as food), pancreas," literally "entirely flesh," from pan- "all" (see pan- ) + kreas "flesh" (see raw ), probably on notion of homogeneous substance of the organ.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pancreas?s=t

Also, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreas

Response last updated by Terry on Oct 12 2016.
Nov 24 2012, 1:40 PM

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