{"id":1628,"date":"2017-05-08T06:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2017-05-08T06:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:43:32","slug":"pancreas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/05\/08\/pancreas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pancreas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pancreas can be one of the more difficult structures for beginning anatomy students. \u00a0This is partly because it is a gland that doesn&#8217;t preserve well and can fall apart easily when handling the stomach or other organs. \u00a0In ideal specimens, the <strong>pancreas<\/strong>\u00a0can be seen as a bumpy structure just underneath the <strong>stomach<\/strong> and extending toward the <strong>duodenum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The job of the pancreas is to secretes enzymes that aid in digestion and the hormone insulin, which is necessary for the body to maintain its blood sugar level. \u00a0 Enzymes from the pancreas travel through the pancreatic duct and and\u00a0then enter the duodenum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1629\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/stomach-pancreas-labeled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1629\" class=\"wp-image-1629 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/stomach-pancreas-labeled.jpg\" alt=\"pancreas\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/stomach-pancreas-labeled.jpg 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/stomach-pancreas-labeled-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/stomach-pancreas-labeled-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/stomach-pancreas-labeled-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pancreas of a preserved cat.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pancreas can be one of the more difficult structures for beginning anatomy students. \u00a0This is partly because it is a gland that doesn&#8217;t preserve well and can fall apart easily when handling the stomach or other organs. \u00a0In ideal specimens, the pancreas\u00a0can be seen as a bumpy structure just underneath the stomach and extending toward the duodenum. The job of the pancreas is to secretes enzymes that aid in digestion and the hormone insulin, which is necessary for the body to maintain its blood sugar level. \u00a0 Enzymes from the pancreas travel through the pancreatic duct and and\u00a0then enter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[376,31,374,375,41,42],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-duct","tag-duodenum","tag-enzymes","tag-insulin","tag-pancreas","tag-stomach","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}