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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 223 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SWEETBREAD , a popular See also:

TERM

term for certain glands of animals, particularly when used as articles of See also:

food; these are usually the See also:

PANCREAS (Gr. rag, all; 1cpks, flesh)

pancreas, the " See also:

STOMACH (Gr. vrbsaxos from arbga, a mouth)

stomach-sweetbread " of butchers, and the thymus, or " See also:

BREAST (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. Sax. brustian, to bud)

breast sweetbread." The term is also sometimes used to include the salivary and lymphatic glands (see DucTLESS GLANDS, PANCREAS and LYMPHATIC See also:

SYSTEM

SYSTEM) .

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