gutbread
nounUS, UK /ˈɡʌtbɹɛd/
Etymology From gut + bread.
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The pancreas, especially the pancreas of livestock used as food.
- Having spent many years in the slaughterhouse, I can perhaps enlighten your correspondent as to what sweetbreads are. The "throat-bread" is undoubtedly the thyroid, and the "gut-bread" the pancreas. […] But I was informed that the gut-bread, i.e., the sweetbread of dictionaries and doctors, is "given to paupers or thrown away."1909, The Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 29, London: J. Churchill, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 819:
- (3) The throat bread (thyroid gland) (4) The heart bread (thymus gland) Biggr } These form a "set" of sweetbreads. (5) The gut bread (pancreas)1928, Thomas Barlow Wood; Leslie Frank Newman, Beef Production in Great Britain, Liverpool: R. Silcock & Sons, OCLC 504869788, page 27
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- The feeding of raw pancreas has been advocated and claimed to be effective but the difficulty of ensuring a regular supply of fresh gutbreads, quite apart from doubts as to the effect of gastric digestion, makes this treatment of dubious value.1965, Joan O[live] Joshua, “Pancreas, Liver, Spleen, Peritoneal Cavity”, in The Clinical Aspects of Some Diseases of Cats, London: William Heinemann Medical Books, →OCLC, page 84:
- Gerrard discloses that the pancreas is sometimes substituted for sweetbread and is referred to as gutbread in English slaughter houses.1967, Araneta Journal of Agriculture, volumes 14–15, Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines: Araneta Institute of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 181:
- The brownish-yellow lobulated pancreas is called ‘gut bread’ or ‘stomach sweetbread’ and weighs approximately 170 g in market-weight beef animals and 85 g in sheep and pigs.2004, H[erbert] W. Ockerman, L. Basu, “By-products”, in Werner K. Jensen, Carrick Devine, Michael Dikeman, editors, Encyclopedia of Meat Sciences, volumes I (A–F), Oxford: Elsevier Academic Press, →ISBN:
- The summarized data from various states show that in the most contaminated regions the incidence rate of gut-bread cancer rose ten times during 1991–1994 if compared with the period of 1986–1990 (Radiation level..., 2000, par. 258, p. 52).2006, Marina Bänke, transl., edited by A[leksei Vladimirovich] Yablokov, R. Braun, and U[te] Watermann, Chernobyl 20 Years After: Myth and Truth, 2nd edition, Münster: Agenda Verlag, →ISBN, page 72: