Thesaurus: pexity
Nap of cloth.
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- n. Nap of cloth.
- Nap of cloth. [Obs.] PEYER'S GLANDS Pey"er's glands`. Etym: [So called from J.K.Peyer, who described them in 1677.] (Anat.) Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.
- Nap of cloth. [Obs.]