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Brunner's gland

American

noun

any of the glands in the submucosal layer of the duodenum, secreting an alkaline fluid into the small intestine.

Etymology

Origin of Brunner's gland

After Swiss anatomist Johann Conrad Brunner (1653–1727), who described them in 1687

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