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Peyer's Glands
Webster's Dictionary
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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Peyer's Glands'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/peyers-glands.html. 1828.