lymphoid tissue

noun

Any lymphoid tissue in the body may be the seat of tuberculous disease, but the glands of the neck are the most commonly involved.

The lymphocytes are derived from lymphoid tissue, wherever it exists in the different parts of the body.

This condition of hypertrophy of lymphoid tissue has come to be known as the lymphatic diathesis or constitution.

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