What is "ductless"

Usage examples of "ductless".

He is already making a big name for himself and is an authority on the functions of ductless glands.

There was something wrong with my ductless glands, something unfixable.

Our variously acquired bits of information concerning the ductless glands lie before us like the fragments of a modern picture puzzle.

It could play on his internal organs and ductless glands as if they were musical instruments, creating any life-time it wanted.

And with that decision she put her ductless glands in a grand alliance with her insanity.

Bill, talking about secretion, your lower ductless glands seem particularly active.

My guess would be that uranium salts act as a catalytic agent in the processes of metabolism and digestion, somewhat as some of our own ductless gland secretions.

In that way I had opportunities to observe them closely, control their mating, and sometimes to experiment with their ductless glands.

At the moment, I am especially absorbed in a study of the endocrines - the ductless glands.

The final decision was in favor of the secretion, and so two types of glands are now recognized: ordinary glands and ductless glands.

The systematic study of the ductless glands and their secretions is, for this reason, called endocrinology.

When, a little over a decade later, Bayliss and Starling worked out the concept of a hormone, it seemed very likely that the islets of Langerhans were ductless glands producing a hormone and that lack of this hormone brought on diabetes mellitus.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

And all this, said Redwood, with the delightful nervous inconsecutiveness of his class, might very probably be found to throw a light upon the mystery of certain of the ductless glands.

And with this came an understanding of what the increased millierg generating capacity of the corpus callosum during periods of increased ductless gland activity, which had puzzled students of the human brain for thirty years, actually meant.