The head of pancreas is a portion of the pancreas that is lodged within the curve of the duodenum, and is flattened anteriorly (from before). The other parts of the pancreas are the body and the tail. Its upper border is overlapped by the superior part of the duodenum and its lower overlaps the horizontal part; its right and left borders overlap in front, and insinuate themselves behind, the descending and ascending parts of the duodenum respectively. [WP,unvetted]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_pancreas ]
Synonyms: right extremity of pancreas pancreatic head pancreas head
Term information
- VHOG:0000448
- NCIT:C12269
- SCTID:362201006
- EHDAA2:0001374
- EMAPA:17507
- MA:0000122
- UMLS:C0227579 (ncithesaurus:Head_of_the_Pancreas)
- Wikipedia:Head_of_pancreas
- FMA:10468
uberon_slim, human_reference_atlas
https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/pancreas-female/v1.3/assets/3d-vh-f-pancreas.glb
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Illu_pancreas_duodenum.jpg
https://cdn.humanatlas.io/digital-objects/ref-organ/pancreas-male/v1.3/assets/3d-vh-m-pancreas.glb
Hagfish and lampreys may have one or more endocrine buds - and later the vertebrate pancreas develop as independent ventral and dorsal buds that eventually fuse to become one organ.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- organ part
- endoderm-derived structure
- part of some pancreas
- develops from some ventral pancreatic bud