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[jbovlaste] pancreas, hepatopancreas, spleen
We have a gismu for "liver". What about the pancreas and spleen? "dizlivga"
for "pancreas"? In English "liver" is native (it goes back at least to
Germanic) but "pancreas" and "spleen" are fu'vla from Greek.
The hepatopancreas, also called the tomalley, is an organ in arthropods which
combines the liver and the pancreas. Since we don't have a word for pancreas,
can we just call it "livga"?
Pierre