Uncinate process of pancreas
| Uncinate process of pancreas | |
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| 1: Head of pancreas 2: Uncinate process of pancreas 3: Pancreatic notch 4: Body of pancreas 5: Anterior surface of pancreas 6: Inferior surface of pancreas 7: Superior margin of pancreas 8: Anterior margin of pancreas 9: Inferior margin of pancreas 10: Omental tuber 11: Tail of pancreas 12: Duodenum |
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| Latin | processus uncinatus pancreatis |
| Gray's | subject #251 1200 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | p_34/12667716 |
In the head of the pancreas, the angle of junction of the lower and left lateral borders forms a prolongation, termed the uncinate process.
During the embryonic development of the distal foregut, the dorsal and ventral pancreatic bud fuses after the stomach rotates. The dorsal pancreatic bud becomes the head, body and tail of the pancreas and the the ventral pancreatic forms the uncinate process.
External links
- uncinate+process+of+pancreas at eMedicine Dictionary
- SUNY Labs 39:09-0106 - "The Pancreas"
- SUNY Figs 39:03-11 - "The duodenum and pancreas."
- Norman/Georgetown pancreas
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| Anatomy of torso, digestive system: Digestive glands | |
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| Organs | Pancreas: by region (Tail, Body, Head, Uncinate process) - by function (Islets of Langerhans, Exocrine pancreas) Liver: by region (Caudate lobe, Quadrate lobe, Right lobe, Left lobe) - by function (Hepatocyte, Space of Disse, Kupffer cell, Liver sinusoid, Ito cell, Hepatic lobule) |
| Ducts | Bile ducts: (Bile canaliculus, Common hepatic duct, Cystic duct, Common bile duct) • Pancreatic duct • Hepatopancreatic ampulla |
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