单词 | ductless |
释义 | ductlessadj. Having no duct. ductless glands, ‘term applied to several bodies which present the general character of glands, but possess no excretory ducts. They are the thymus and thyroid bodies, the spleen, adrenals, and the vascular, carotic, coccygeal, and pituitary bodies.’ New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [noun] miliary gland1691 mucilaginous gland1691 mucous gland1699 acinus1702 crypta1726 glandule1751 crypt1804 globate gland1813 ganglion1819 submaxillary1824 lacrimal1829 germ gland1840 sweat-gland1845 ductless glands1849 lymph node1892 metasternal1965 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1112/1 The ductless glands. 1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. IX. 89 The liver, in one of its functions, is a ductless gland. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 237 The Thyroid Body or gland is another ductless structure of unknown function. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1849 |
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