单词 | glandule |
释义 | glandulen. a. A gland. Obsolete.The word is chiefly current in the 17th cent. and is then applied esp. to the glands of the throat and neck, or to the tonsils, though also used as a general term. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > [noun] kernel1398 glandulec1400 aden1653 gland1692 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 84 Glandeles þat ben kirnelis þat ben in þe ground [= groin]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 339 The spungeous kernels, which in men be called Tonsillæ, or the Almands, are in swine named the Glandules. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xvii. xv. 648 At the greater corner of the eye there is a glandule, made for the receiving and contayning the moysture. 1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 424 The rest of the Glanduls of the Body do serve either to Excretion, as those of the Testicles, Prostates..; or for reduction, as Glandulæ Renales. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. viii. 162 For the affording this oily or muciliginous Matter, there are Glandules very commodiously placed near the Joynts. 1748 tr. Vegetius Of Distempers Horses 161 The glandules also are sometimes troublesome to animals. b. A small gland. 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 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 63 Oral salivary glands are represented only by small glandules impacted in the mucous membrane of the mouth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > swollen glands kernelc1000 glander1483 fugill1543 bocion1547 glandules?1550 malis1607 farcy1762 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 207 Also blood is medlid wiþ greet fleume & malancolie, & engendriþ glandulas & Scrophulas.] ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. U.vi To take away the glandules, incorporate brimstone and whete bran wt Terpentine. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxiii. 137 For the strangles or glandules which happen vnder the oxe his throate..plucke away their glandules, and after couer his head with some couering. 3. A morbid swelling or growth in the body. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] carnosity1559 outwaxing1562 mandrake1568 excrescence1578 sarcome1626 excrescency1641 glandule1656 sarcoma1657 superexcrescence1676 caruncle1722 wart1774 clavus1842 growth1849 adenoid1855 neoplasm1863 neoplasma1876 1656 R. Whitley in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1897) III. 263 His distemper was a great swelling on his brest below his clauis. Phisitians..found..yt he had there a glandule by wearing of armes or something else. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. iii. 296 They found his Reins to be wasted, and two Callous Glandules (which the Physicians call Tuberculi) obstructing the passage of his Urine. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 425 Sometimes [the diseased omentum has been] loaded with many thousand glandules. Derivatives glanduˈlaceous adj. [see -aceous suffix] ‘like to a gland’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1885). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400 |
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