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pancreatic diarrhea
pancreatic diarrhea[‚pan·krē′ad·ik ‚dī·ə′rē·ə] (medicine) Diarrhea due to deficiency of pancreatic digestive enzymes, characterized by the passage of large, greasy stools having a high fat and nitrogen content. pancreatic diarrhea
di·ar·rhe·a pan·cre·a·ti·cadiarrhea characterized by severe, watery, secretory diarrhea and hyperkalemia; most patients have hypercalcemia, many have hyperglycemia; results from excessive secretion of vasoactive intestinal peptide by an islet cell tumor of the pancreas. Sometimes called WDHA syndrome. See: Verner-Morrison syndrome, WDHA syndrome. Synonym(s): pancreatic cholera, pancreatic diarrhea |