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Definition of Stomach sweetbread
1. Noun. Edible pancreas of an animal.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stomach Sweetbread
Literary usage of Stomach sweetbread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1917)
"... throat sweetbread' is known to anatomists as the thymus gland; the ' stomach
sweetbread' is the pancreas. ..."
2. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1905)
"The ' throat sweetbread' is known to anatomists as the thymus gland; the ' stomach
sweetbread' is the pancreas. The thymus of the calf is the one most ..."
3. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1911)
"The ' throat sweetbread ' is known to anatomists as the thymus gland ; the '
stomach sweetbread ' is the pancreas. The thymus of the calf is the one most ..."
4. Food and the Principles of Dietetics by Robert Hutchison (1917)
"The ' throat sweetbread' is known to anatomists as the thymus gland; the ' stomach
sweetbread' is the pancreas. The thymus of the calf is the one most ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The pancreas of the calf is used for food under the name of the 'stomach sweetbread,"
in distinction to the "neck sweetbread," which is the thymus gland. ..."
6. The Medical Times and Gazette (1885)
"... bowt-ver, '* throat sweetbread," the latter *' stomach sweetbread." It need
not be observed that it is necessary to obtain the true pancreas. VOL. II. ..."
7. Farmer's Cyclopedia of Live Stock by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Clarence Beaman Smith (1908)
"The important digestive glands are the salivary glands, liver, pancreas or stomach
sweetbread and small glands in the walls of the stomach and intestines. ..."