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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.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Hieronymus Fabricius, (1537–1619), Italian anatomist.]
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