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gland

/gland/US // glænd //UK // (ɡlænd) //

腺体,压盖,腺点,腺

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Anatomy. a cell, group of cells, or organ producing a secretion.any of various organs or structures resembling the shape but not the function of true glands.
    • : Botany. a secreting organ or structure.

Examples

  • In one recent study, a Stanford team made 34 modifications to the yeast’s DNA to chemically assemble a molecule with widespread effects on human muscles, glands, and tissue.

  • Dawson discovered that her glands were barely producing cortisol, a hormone critical to vital body functions.

  • He and others recently showed where the saliva glands get some of the major proteins they put into human saliva.

  • The researchers think a large, protrusible pheromone gland with lots of surface area could be a workaround, more efficiently dispersing pheromones to be detected by the antennae of would-be suitors.

  • “I can easily see something like that being the precursor of the protrusible gland,” says Rodrigues.

  • Others who, because of a tumor in the pituitary gland, may overproduce HGH develop a different problem: gigantism.

  • Carrey sings: "You're a big, big man with a little bitty gland, so you need something bigger with a hairpin trigger."

  • HGH is a hormone normally made in tiny amounts by the pituitary gland in all of us.

  • To decimate the malformation, destroying the offending oil gland once it morphs into something with a head.

  • The thymus gland attains a considerable development in the embryo and shrinks away to the merest vestige in the adult.

  • The strong probability is that this gland belongs in the same category with other embryonic survivals yet to be pointed out.

  • It is nearly always accompanied by a distinct hypertrophy of the thymus gland.

  • I want a ball bat to club every country jake doctor that looks me over and asks about my pituitary gland.

  • The mucus secreted from gland cells in this lining makes a slippery surface so that the food may slip down easily.