Word Meanings - ADENOSCLEROSIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hardening of a gland.

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• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• GLAND
  The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing. (more info) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the
• GLANDAGE
  A feeding on nuts or mast. Crabb.
• GLANDERED
  Affected with glanders; as, a glandered horse. Yu
• GLANDULOUS
  Containing glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands; resembling glands.
• GLANDULIFEROUS
  Bearing glandules.
• GLANDULOSE
  See GLANDULOUS
• GLANDIFEROUS
  Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
• GLANDIFORM
  Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
• GLANDERS
  A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It
• HARDEN
  Etym: 1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron. 2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make
• HARDENING
  1. Making hard or harder. 2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
• GLANDULATION
  The situation and structure of the secretory vessels in plants. Martyn. Glandulation respects the secretory vessels, which are either glandules, follicles, or utricles. J. Lee.
• HARDENER
  One who, or that which, hardens; specif., one who tempers tools.
• GLANDEROUS
  Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders. Youatt.
• HARDENED
  Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice. Syn. -- Impenetrable; hard; obdurate; callous; unfeeling; unsusceptible; insensible. See Obdurate.
• GLANDULE
  A small gland or secreting vessel.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• OVERHARDEN
  To harden too much; to make too hard. Boyle.
• SELF-HARDENING
  Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese,
• PLOWLAND; PLOUGLAND
  the quantity of land allotted for the work of one plow; a hide. (more info) 1. Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.
• BIGLANDULAR
  Having two glands, as a plant.
• CASEHARDEN
  1. To subject to a process which converts the surface of iron into steel. 2. To render insensible to good influences.
• JUGLANDINE
  An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut .
• EGLANDULOSE; EGLANDULOUS
  Destitute of glands.
• ENHARDEN
  To harden; to embolden. Howell.
• CASEHARDENED
  1. Having the surface hardened, as iron tools. 2. Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.