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glandular, a.|ˈglændjʊlə(r)|
[ad. F. glandulaire, f. glandule glandule: see -ar1.]
Of or pertaining to a gland or glandule; resembling, or of the nature of, a gland; containing, bearing, or consisting of, a gland or glands. a. Phys. b. Bot.
a.1740Cheyne Regimen 188 The nervous membranous Tubuli, and the glandular Machinulæ. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 83 Glandular obstructions..generally proceed from inactivity. 1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 481/2 The prevailing ideas respecting the essential characters of the glandular organization are..vague and indefinite. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 15 We cannot admit a proper Glandular Tissue, as most authors do. 1872Huxley Phys. v. 117 The liver is the largest glandular organ in the body.
b.1793Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. Glandulosum, A glandular leaf, is that which has glands either on the surface or on the serratures. a1794Sir W. Jones Sel. Indian Plants Wks. 1799 II. 99 Germ awled; pointed, furrowed, with prominent seedlets, sitting on a glandular pedicel. 1859Fairholt Tobacco (1876) 2 The leaves..are covered with glandular hairs. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 121 Rosa villosa..sepals more or less persistent densely glandular.
Hence ˈglandularly adv.
1840Paxton Bot. Dict., Glandularly-crenated, Glandularly-serrated, having crenatures or serratures tipped with glands. [And other examples.]
Add:2. Special collocation: glandular fever [tr. G. Drüsenfieber] = infectious mononucleosis s.v. infectious a. 2 c.
[1892Ashby & Wright Dis. Children (ed. 2) xiv. 238 Such cases have been described by E. Pfeiffer, Heubner, and Rauchfuss,..under the name of gland fever.] 1896Arch. Pediatrics XIII. 889 The disease was a general infection with a local manifestation in the lymphatic system, corresponding in detail to the disease described by Pfeiffer as glandular fever. 1958[see Paul–Bunnell n.]. 1987Jrnl. Laryngol. & Otol. CI. 673/2 The clinical picture of glandular fever is of an illness of variable duration in association with lymphadenopathy—almost always involving cervical nodes. |