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Webster 1913 Edition

Sweetbread

Sweet′breadˊ

(swēt′brĕdˊ)

,

Noun.

1.

Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called

neck sweetbread

or

throat sweetbread

, the latter

belly sweetbread

. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See

, and

.

2.

(Anat.)

The pancreas.