Crossword clues for gland
gland
- Pituitary, e.g
- Pituitary or adrenal
- Endocrine or pituitary
- Secretion organ, e.g
- Pineal or pituitary
- Pancreas, e.g
- Pancreas or liver
- Endocrinologist's concern
- Endocrine, for one
- Body organ
- Adrenal, for instance
- Thyroid, for one
- Thyroid or thymus
- Source of sweat
- Source of secretions
- Something that's secretive
- Secretive thing?
- Prostate, e.g
- Pituitary, for one
- Pituitary or thyroid organ
- Pituitary or thyroid
- Organ that secretes
- Liver, for instance
- Hormone synthesis site
- Hormone source, often
- Hormone source
- Endocrine, e.g
- Endocrine __
- Adrenal or pituitary, for example
- Adrenal ___
- Endocrine, e.g.
- Liver or thyroid
- Hormone regulator
- Thyroid, e.g.
- Pancreas, e.g.
- Pituitary, e.g.
- Thymus, e.g.
- Sweat ___
- Producer of sweat and tears, but not blood
- Secretive body part
- Thyroid, for instance
- Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream
- Item in adenology
- Thymus, for one
- Endocrinology topic
- Liver, e.g.
- Country with no space for organ
- Secretory organ
- Secreting organ
- Body part
- It'll make you sweat
- Thymus, e.g
- Pancreas, for one
- Liver, for one
- Liver or kidney
- Thyroid, e.g
- Hormone producer
- Hormone organ
- Adrenal, e.g
- Sweat __
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gland \Gland\, n. [F. glande, L. glans, glandis, acorn; akin to Gr. ? for ?, and ? to cast, throw, the acorn being the dropped fruit. Cf. Parable, n.]
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(Anat.)
An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.
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An organ or part which resembles a secreting, or true, gland, as the ductless, lymphatic, pineal, and pituitary glands, the functions of which are very imperfectly known.
Note: The true secreting glands are, in principle, narrow pouches of the mucous membranes, or of the integument, lined with a continuation of the epithelium, or of the epidermis, the cells of which produce the secretion from the blood. In the larger glands, the pouches are tubular, greatly elongated, and coiled, as in the sweat glands, or subdivided and branched, making compound and racemose glands, such as the pancreas.
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(Bot.)
A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.
Any very small prominence.
(Steam Mach.) The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.
(Mach.) The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from French glande (Old French glandre, 13c.), from Latin glandula "gland of the throat, tonsil," diminutive of glans (genitive glandis) "acorn, nut; acorn-shaped ball," from PIE root *gwele- (2) "acorn" (cognates: Greek balanos, Armenian kalin, Old Church Slavonic zelodi "acorn;" Lithuanian gile "oak"). Earlier English form was glandula (c.1400).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context zoology English) An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland). 2 (context botany English) A secretory structure on the surface of an organ. Etymology 2
n. (mechanical) a compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier. Examples:
WordNet
n. any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream [syn: secretory organ, secretor, secreter]
Wikipedia
A gland is an organ in an animal's body that synthesizes substances (such as hormones) for release into the bloodstream ( endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface ( exocrine gland).
A gland is an organ in an animal's body that synthesizes a substance for release.
Gland may also refer to:
- Gland (botany), a secretory structure on a plant that produces a sticky, viscous substance
- Gland, Aisne, a commune in the Aisne département, in France
- Gland, Yonne, a commune in the Yonne département, in France
- Gland (Oise), a river in France, tributary of the Oise
- Gland (Rhone), a river in France, tributary of the Rhone
- Gland, Switzerland, a town in Switzerland
- Gland (engineering), a type of fluid seal allowing rotary or linear motion
- Cable gland, a device designed to attach and secure the end of a cable to the equipment
In plants, a gland is defined functionally as a plant structure which secretes one or more products. This may be located on or near the plant surface and secrete externally, or be internal to the plant and secrete into a canal or reservoir. Examples include glandular hairs, nectaries, hydathodes, and the resin canals in Pinus.
Usage examples of "gland".
The parent form of Dionaea and Aldrovanda seems to have been closely allied to Drosera, and to have had rounded leaves, supported on distinct footstalks, and furnished with tentacles all round the circumference, with other tentacles and sessile glands on the upper surface.
The healing amnionic fluid generated by the spore-forming glands, after the transparent amber sphere had enclosed him, offered Lavon his only chance.
When you do that, you remover debris, stimulate small glands to secrete oil for a tear film that covers the eyes like Saran Wrap, and simulate your own tears, which are antibacterial and hydrate the cornea.
The modern Martian now has separate antimorph glands, located near the adrenals.
On the other hand, the glands on which the seeds of the Rumex and Avena rested continued to secrete for nine days.
I looked at it again after the interval of an hour, the glands were blackened, and there was wellmarked aggregation.
The glands were blackened from the aggregation of their protoplasmic contents.
The glands which had been in contact with them, instead of being much blackened, were of a very pale colour, and many of them were evidently killed.
On the third day the glands in contact with the haematin were blackened, and some of the tentacles seemed injured.
This result is analogous to that which follows from the immersion of leaves in a strong solution of one part of the carbonate to 109, or 146, or even 218 of water, for the leaves are then paralysed and no inflection ensues, though the glands are blackened, and the protoplasm in the cells of the tentacles undergoes strong aggregation.
The glands on the central disc were blackened, and had ceased secreting.
No movement ensued, but some few of the glands were blackened and shrivelled, whilst many became quite pale.
A piece of leaf immersed in a few drops of a solution of one part of carbonate of ammonia to 437 of water had all the glands blackened and all the tentacles inflected in 5 m.
The first effect of the carbonate and of certain other salts of ammonia, as well as of some other fluids, is the darkening or blackening of the glands.
The purple fluid or granular matter which fills the cells of the glands differs to a certain extent from that within the cells of the pedicels.