Category:Peyer's glands

Pey"er's glands`. Etym: [so called from j.k.peyer, who described them In 1677.] (anat.)

Defn: pathches 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.