Brunner's gland


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

Origin of Brunner's gland

1
After Swiss anatomist Johann Conrad Brunner (1653–1727), who described them in 1687

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