adenousadj.
/ˈadᵻnəs/, /ˈadn̩əs/, U.S. /ˈædn̩əs/ Medicine. Now rare.
Containing or resembling glands or (in early use) lymph nodes; = glandular adj. 1
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kernelled1398
kernelly1398
glandulousc1400
adenose?1541
glandinous?1541
kernellish1543
adenous1655
glandular1668
glanduliferous1702
adenoid1813
glandiform1842
adenoidal1847
glanduligerous1857
interglandular1873
intraglandular1892
1610 S. H. tr. Hippocrates Whole Aphorismes 71 All feuers proceeding from the tumors in inguine and other adenosus parts, are euil.]
1655 tr. Hippocrates Aphorismes 84 All Feavers proceeding from tumors in the groyn, and other adenous parts are evil.
1684 J. Browne Adenochoiradelogia ii. v. 82 Celsus saith he hath found Strumaes in Womens Breasts, as also in Mens Breasts; and reason it self cannot deny this Assertion of his, because these are Adenous parts.
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Adenous abscess, a hard glandular abscess, which suppurates slowly.
1874 A. E. J. Barker tr. H. Frey Histol. & Histochem. Man 486 They..begin close to the stomach, closely crowded together into a regular adenous layer seated immediately under the mucosa.
2005 European Jrnl. Cardio-thoracic Surg. 27 690/2 According to WHO, adenosquamous cancers (ASC) consist of both squamous and adenous elements.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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