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splenopancreas

splenopancreas noun: the conjoined spleen and pancreas in most snakes.

Noun

splenopancreas

  1. The conjoined spleen and pancreas in most snakes
    • Aseptic procedures were used to collect fresh tissue samples from the nasolabial pits and skin lesions for fungal culture and qPCR. Another set of tissues (head, skin lesions, lung, liver, splenopancreas, kidney, and intestine) were collected and placed in 10% neutral buffered formalin for...2015 October 16, “Development of Snake Fungal Disease after Experimental Challenge with Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola in Cottonmouths ( Agkistrodon piscivorous )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of splenopancreas

From spleno- + pancreas.

Questions about splenopancreas

What does splenopancreas mean?
Splenopancreas means the conjoined spleen and pancreas in most snakes.
What part of speech is splenopancreas?
Splenopancreas is a noun.

Words near splenopancreas in the dictionary

  1. splenomegalia
  2. splenomegalic
  3. splenomegalies
  4. splenomegaly
  5. splenomesenteric
  6. splenopancreas
  7. splenopancreatectomies
  8. splenopancreatectomy
  9. splenopancreatic
  10. splenopathic
  11. splenopathies

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