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Sweetbread

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a popular term for certain glands of animals, particularly when used as articles of food; these are usually the pancreas, the "stomach-sweetbread" of butchers, and the thymus, or "breast sweetbread." The term is also sometimes used to include the salivary and lymphatic glands (see Ductless Glands, Pancreas and Lymphatic System).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Sweetbread'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/sweetbread.html. 1910.
 
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