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bursa of Fabricius

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A lymphoid gland in birds that is connected to the cloaca and is the site of B cell maturation.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Hieronymus Fabricius, (1537–1619), Italian anatomist.]

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