It is often caused by gallstones. Common symptoms are severe pain in the upper abdomen, nausea, and vomiting. Treatment is usually a few days in the hospital for intravenous (IV) fluids, antibiotics, and medicines to relieve pain. Chronic pancreatitis does not heal or improve.
Definition of Entropy. Entropy is a thermodynamic measure of the disorder in a system. The entropy of a reaction is calculated by comparing the disorder of the products and reactants. An increase in entropy corresponds to an increase in disorder and a dispersion of energy. An important example of a system with increasing entropy is water boiling to make steam, where the molecules have much more freedom and are more disordered.
The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy can never decrease over time for an isolated system, that is, a system in which neither energy nor matter can enter nor leave. The total entropy can remain constant in ideal cases where the system is in a steady state, or is undergoing a reversible process. In all spontaneous processes, the total entropy always increases and the process is irreversible. The increase in entropy accounts for the irreversibility of natural processes, an