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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Anat.) 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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