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lymph gland

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lymph gland [′limf ‚gland]
(anatomy)


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These nodes and lymph glands are major players in the immune system, because this is where an antibody response to an infection first gets mounted.
He speaks candidly about his recovery from testicular cancer (which had migrated into his lymph glands and abdomen).
For example, antibodies against the herpes virus appeared in the newborn lambs' neck lymph glands as well as in their blood, he says.
 
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