BLOOD CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM LYMPHOID ORGANS
THYMUS
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Lies below your Adam’s apple, along the front of your windpipe.
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Upper anterior part of your chest directly behind your sternum and between lungs.
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Sits across the back of the abdomen, behind the stomach.
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Top of your kidney
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Detailed explanation-1: -The thymus gland is in the chest, between the lungs and behind the breastbone or sternum. It is just in front of and above the heart.
Detailed explanation-2: -Where is the thymus located? The location of your thymus gland is in your upper chest behind your breastbone (sternum). It sits between your lungs in a part of your chest called the mediastinum. Your thymus is just in front of and above your heart.
Detailed explanation-3: -The thymus is located in the upper anterior (front) part of your chest directly behind your sternum and between your lungs. The pinkish-gray organ has two thymic lobes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The thymus sits anterior to the great vessels of the heart and deep to the sternum.
Detailed explanation-5: -The thymus is a soft organ with two lobes that is located anterior to the ascending aorta and posterior to the sternum. It is relatively large in infants and children but after puberty it begins to decrease in size so that in older adults it is quite small.