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peyer's glands
CIDE DICTIONARY
peyer's glands, [So called from J. K. Peyer , who described them in 1677.].
Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches . In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease. [1913 Webster]
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