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COMPOUND GLAND

\kˈɒmpa͡ʊnd ɡlˈand], \kˈɒmpa‍ʊnd ɡlˈand], \k_ˈɒ_m_p_aʊ_n_d ɡ_l_ˈa_n_d]\

Definitions of COMPOUND GLAND

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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A gland made up of various pouches or acini.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A gland in which the extent of secreting surface is increased by recession of mucous membrane into pouches and subdivision of its walls into smaller pouches.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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