Peyer's glands

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Pey´er's glands`

(Anat.) 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.

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