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The generic term in sweetbread, though it covers a variety of organs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetbread

That would be thymus, not thyroid. Those are pretty different glands.

The thymus is not the thyroid gland, if that's the connection you're trying to make. AFAIK the thyroid gland is not deliberately consumed unless as medicine.

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