English Dictionary:
- The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of
nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and
its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often
together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a
powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.
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