Peyerianadj.

1721 tr. L. Heister Compend. Anat. 105 The Peyerian and Brunnerian glands in the small Intestines are generally conglomerate, little, miliary, and sometimes also solitary.

1724 J. Crawford Cursus Medicinæ 44 The pancreatic and lymphatic juice separated in the intestins, the Peyerian juice pressed out of the glands in the same.

1791 W. Vaughan Expos. Princ. Anat. & Physiol. II. 53 The Intestinal Glands, which are simple, and are as well solitariae, that is, placed here and there, as heaped up like a bunch of grapes; the former are called Brannerian [sic] Glands, the latter Peyerian.

1847 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 23 600 Death had been immediately induced by the hemorrhage from a Peyerian ulcer.

1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 839/1 Each Peyerian patch consists of but a single layer of gland-vesicles.

1862 Gray's Anat. (U.S. ed. 2) 670 The mucous and submucous coats of the intestine are intimately adherent, and highly vascular, opposite the Peyerian glands.

1907 Proc. Royal Soc. 79 435 As a matter of observation it is in the solitary and Peyerian glands of the intestine that tubercular infection takes place.