Usually means: Gland for immune system development.
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  1. thymus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Thymus, thymus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thymus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thymus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Thymus, thymus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thymus, thymus: Wordnik
  7. thymus: Wiktionary
  8. thymus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. thymus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. thymus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. thymus: Dictionary.com
  12. thymus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Thymus (disambiguation), Thymus (insect), Thymus (plant), Thymus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Thymus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. thymus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Thymus: Rhymezone
  17. Thymus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. thymus: FreeDictionary.org
  19. thymus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. thymus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thymus (genus), thymus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. thymus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Thymus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
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  6. Thymus: Anatomy of the Human Body
  7. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Thymus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  10. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  11. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  13. Thymus: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  14. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  15. thymus: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  16. Thymus (genus), thymus: Medical dictionary
  17. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  18. Thymus: Drug Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Thymus)

noun:  (anatomy, immunology) Ellipsis of thymus gland (“A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.”). [(anatomy, immunology) A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.]

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