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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.

A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.

Any very small prominence.

The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.

The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; - sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.

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.

A special organ of plants, usually minute and globular, which often secretes some kind of resinous, gummy, or aromatic product.

Any very small prominence.

The crosspiece of a bayonet clutch.

The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; - sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.

A bodily organ by which secretion is carried on.

Glandular.

A secreting organ in plants or animals.

An organ secreting or excreting a substance.

A fleshy organ of the body which secretes some substance from the blood: (bot.) a small cellular spot which secretes oil or aroma.

Secreting organ in animals or plants.

(diminutive of glans, an acorn, a kernel.) Aden. The ancient anatomists gave this name to a number of organs of a texture generally soft, and a shape more or less globular, but differing greatly in their nature and functions. They applied it, for instance, 1. To those organs which separate from the blood, any fluid whatever. When such organs were composed of several lobules, united by common vessels, they received the name conglomerate glands, as the parotid, pancreas, &c. 2. To the reddish and spongy, knot-like bodies, which are met with in the course of the lymphatics. These they called conglobate glands; - see Ganglion, (lymphatic;) and 3dly and lastly, to various other organs, whose intimate texture and functions are still unknown, as the Pineal gland, Pituitary gland, Glands of Pacchioni, Thyroid gland, Thymus gland, Supra-renal glands, &c. Chanssier restricts the word gland to those softish, granular, lobated organs, composed of vessels, and a particular texture, of which there are in the human body, the lachrymal, salivary, and mammary, the testicles, the liver, pancreas, and kidneys. These permanent glands, or glands with permanent ducts, are all destined to draw from the blood the molecules necessary for the formation of new fluids, and to convey these fluids externally, by means of one or more excretory ducts. Several glands, besides their excretory ducts, have especial reservoirs, in which the fluids, secreted by them, collect, remain for a greater or less space of time, and undergo slight modifications before being evacuated; - such are, the gallbladder for the liver, the urinary bladder for the kidneys, &c. Each gland has an organization peculiar to it, but we know not the intimate nature of the glandular texture.-Malpighi believed that the vessels terminate in small, solid masses, to which he gave the name-glandular grains or acini. In these, he considered, the excretory ducts originate. Ruysch thought that the glands are entirely vascular, and that the excretory ducts are immediately continuous with the vasa afferentia, &c. The best view, perhaps, is, that the exhaling or secreting vessel is distributed on the animal membrane, which forms the blind extremity of the excretory duct, and that the secretion is effected through it by means of cells. The term glande (F.) is sometimes appropriated to the tumour formed by inflammation or engorgement of a lymphatic ganglion.

Glans-g. Accessory, of the Parotid, see Parotid-g. Anteprostatic, see Cowper'a glands-g. Blood, see Ganglion-g. Globate, Conglobate gland-g. Prostate, Prostate-g. Salivary, abdominal, Pancreas.

Organ for separating any fluid from the blood.

An organ, developed out of epithelial cells, specialized for the manufacture of a definite substance, either an excretion or a secretion. This substance may be discharged through a duct or absorbed directly into the blood stream. Both kinds of secretion may be produced by the same gland.

A lymph node. In this sense the word gland is erroneous and should be discarded.

n. [Latin] A cell or collection of cells, having the power of secreting some peculiar substance from the blood or animal fluids;—a small cellular spot or duct which secretes oil or aroma, as in orange-peel;—any very small prominence.

A smooth fleshy substance which serves as a kind of strainer to separate some particular fluid from the blood.