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The major intrinsic pancreatic ducts of the rhinoceros
Author(s) -
Cave A. J. E.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of zoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0952-8369
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb03752.x
Subject(s) - major duodenal papilla , duodenum , duct (anatomy) , rhinoceros , anatomy , biology , pancreatic duct , pancreas , ampulla , parenchyma , zoology , medicine , biochemistry , botany
A first‐time account is given of the parenchymal subdivisions and related duct system of the pancreas in Didermocerus, Diceros and Ceratotherium. In each of these rhinoceros forms a small, superficial portion only of the caput pancreatis is drained by a Santorini duct opening directly into the duodenum. The remainder of the pancreatic parenchyma is drained principally by a transverse and an ascending duct, from whose union arises a short Wirsung duct which enters the duodenum through an intermediary Vaterian ampulla situated within a prominent papilla duodeni.