A duct joining the pancreas to the common bile duct to supply pancreatic juices which aid in digestion provided by the exocrine pancreas. The pancreatic duct joins the common bile duct just prior to the ampulla of Vater, after which both ducts perforate the medial side of the second portion of the duodenum at the major duodenal papilla. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_duct ]
Synonyms: main pancreatic duct chief pancreatic duct duct of Wirsung
Term information
- EMAPA:17510
- VHOG:0000256
- NCIT:C12272
- RETIRED_EHDAA2:0002177
- FMA:16003
- Wikipedia:Pancreatic_duct
- EHDAA:6905
- SCTID:245385001
- EHDAA2:0001396
- GAID:337
- BTO:0002362
- MESH:D010183
- MA:0000126
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
EDITOR_NOTE in EHDAA2 this is an epithelium, in FMA the wall consists of epithelium and connective tissue
Term relations
- tube
- pancreatic duct
- channels_into some hepatopancreatic ampulla
- channel for some bile
- develops from some ventral pancreatic bud
- continuous with some common bile duct