gland
noun/ɡlænd/
/ɡlænd/
- an organ in a person’s or an animal’s body that produces a substance for the body to use; a part in the body that is similar to this, especially a lymph node
- a snake’s poison glands
- Her glands are swollen.
- She’s gone to bed with swollen glands and a temperature.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- enlarged
- swollen
- adrenal
- …
- release something
- secrete something
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae ‘throat glands’.Definitions on the go
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