Canine Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas that can occur in two very different forms. Acute pancreatitis is sudden while chronic pancreatitis is characterized by recurring or persistent form of pancreatic inflammation.Cases of both can be considered mild or severe.ancreatitis is caused by autodigestion of the pancreas thought to begin with an increase in secretion of pancreatic enzymes in response to a stimulus, which can be anything from table scraps to getting into the garbage to drugs, toxins, and trauma.
or British mollusc /ËmÉËlÉsk/. plural mollusks. Learner's definition of MOLLUSK. [count] biology. : any one of a large group of animals (such as snails and clams) that have a soft body without a backbone and that usually live in a shell.
1. mussel-black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine. edible mussel, Mytilus edulis-a mussel with a dark shell that lives attached to rocks. shellfish-meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean).. mussel-marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. bivalve, lamellibranch, pelecypod-marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together.