Word Meanings - ADENOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.

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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.
• INCISION
  1. The act of incising, or cutting into a substance. Milton. 2. That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash. 3. Separation or solution of viscid matter
• GLANDULOSE
  See GLANDULOUS
• GLANDIFEROUS
  Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
• GLANDIFORM
  Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.
• DISSECTION
  1. The act of dissecting an animal or plant; as, dissection of the human body was held sacrilege till the time of Francis I. 2. Fig.: The act of separating or dividing for the purpose of critical examination. 3. Anything dissected; especially,
• 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
• 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.
• GLANDEROUS
  Of or pertaining to glanders; of the nature of glanders. Youatt.
• GLANDULE
  A small gland or secreting vessel.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• 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.
• JUGLANDINE
  An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut .
• EGLANDULOSE; EGLANDULOUS
  Destitute of glands.
• LIEBERKUHN'S GLANDS; LIEBERKUEHN'S GLANDS
  The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.