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What part of the body fits the following description?
Located in the thoracic cavity, just under the neck. It’s made up of two lobes of lymphoid tissue. Each lobe has a medulla surrounded by a cortex. The cortex is where immature lymphocytes first go to become T cells, but their maturation finishes in the medulla.
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The thymus is large during childhood, but during the early teen years it starts to decrease in size. Why does it get smaller (or to be more clinical, involute)? No one knows — it’s still a mystery.
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