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Definition: Gland |
GlandNoun1. Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gland" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | An organ that produces and releases one or more substances for use in the body. Some glands produce fluids that affect tissues or organs. Others produce hormones or participate in blood production. (references) |
Industry | Term sometimes used for a complete stuffing-box. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | A flanged sleeve which compresses the packing of a stuffing box. It is adjusted by studs or by a screw cap. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A cell or an organ which secrets or excretes a substance or substances. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The outer portion of a stuffing box, having a tubular projection embracing the rod, extending into the bore of the box, and bearing against the packing b. The fixed engaging part of a positive-driven clutc. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gland, an organ in an animal's body that synthesises a substance for release, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavity inside the body or outer surface (exocrine gland).
Humans have a large variety of glands, from the pituitary gland in the brain, to sweat glands over the body's skin that release perspiration to regulate the body's temperature.
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Synonyms: GlandSynonyms: secreter (n), secretor (n), secretory organ (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's a bio-synthetic gland. It's not evil (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) The gland secretes the quicksilver that makes you invisible, but it also spikes your epinev (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) My brother and some scientists made into a synthetic gland and that's where I come in. You see, I was facing life in prison, so we made a deal, they put the gland in my brain, I walk free (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) | |
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 | Illustration of a cross-section of the skin with labels indicating epidermis, dermis, sweat gland, fatty tissue, nerve follicle and oil gland. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Line drawing showing lateral view of the prostate gland, rectum, bladder, penis and testis. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE) virus seen in a mosquito salivary gland, is normally transmitted to humans though the bite of a Culex mosquito. Credit: CDC. |  | Electron micrograph of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus in a mosquito salivary gland; Alphavirus; EEE. Credit: CDC. |
 | Histopathology of cytomegalovirus infection of salivary gland. Credit: CDC. |  | Studies in the functioning of the thyroid gland. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr.. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Casey leaned his head to one side and, smiling, tapped the gland of his neck with his fingers |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Damage to the adrenal gland. (references) | |
Inflammation of the prostate gland. (references) | ||
Each gland is located above a kidney. (references) | ||
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| "Gland" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.21% of the time. "Gland" is used about 254 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.21% | 252 | 18,696 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.79% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 254 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "gland": adrenal gland ♦ Adrenal Gland Hypofunction ♦ Adrenal Gland Neoplasms ♦ Anal Gland Neoplasms ♦ anterior pituitary gland ♦ apocrine gland ♦ baculoviral midgut gland necrosis ♦ bartholins gland ♦ Bartholin's gland ♦ bulbourethral gland ♦ central vein of suprarenal gland ♦ conglobate gland ♦ Cowper's gland ♦ digestive gland ♦ digestive gland disease of flat oysters ♦ duct gland ♦ ductless gland ♦ ducts of lacrimal gland ♦ eccrine gland ♦ endocrine gland ♦ Endocrine Gland Neoplasms ♦ exocrine gland ♦ Germ gland ♦ gland box ♦ gland disease ♦ gland follower ♦ gland packing ♦ green gland ♦ Harder gland ♦ Harderian Gland ♦ honey gland ♦ Interrenal Gland ♦ lachrymal gland ♦ lacrimal gland ♦ lymph gland ♦ lymphatic gland ♦ male reproductive gland ♦ mammary gland ♦ mandibular gland ♦ maxillary gland ♦ Meibomian gland ♦ Metrial Gland ♦ mucous gland ♦ nabothian gland ♦ oil gland ♦ parathyroid gland ♦ parotid gland ♦ peptic gland ♦ perspiratory gland ♦ Peter's gland ♦ pineal gland ♦ Pituitary Gland ♦ poison gland ♦ posterior pituitary gland ♦ preen gland ♦ prostate gland ♦ salivary gland ♦ Salivary Gland Calculi ♦ Salivary Gland Fistula ♦ Salivary Gland Neoplasms ♦ Salt Gland ♦ scent gland ♦ sebaceous gland ♦ shell gland ♦ silk gland ♦ slime gland ♦ spinning gland ♦ sublingual gland ♦ Sublingual Gland Neoplasms ♦ sublingual salivary gland ♦ Submandibular Gland ♦ submandibular salivary gland ♦ submaxillary gland ♦ submaxillary salivary gland ♦ sudoriferous gland ♦ suprarenal gland ♦ sweat gland ♦ Sweat Gland Diseases ♦ tarsal gland ♦ tear gland ♦ thymus gland ♦ thyroid gland ♦ Thyroid gland enlarged ♦ uropygial gland ♦ vestibular gland ♦ yolk gland. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "gland": gland-cell, gland-like. | |
Ending with "gland": tear-gland, venom-gland. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
thyroid gland | 563 | sebaceous gland | 57 |
adrenal gland | 558 | saliva gland | 54 |
swollen gland | 404 | anal gland | 53 |
pituitary gland | 369 | mammary gland | 50 |
gland | 307 | bartholins gland | 48 |
prostate gland | 245 | prostrate gland | 44 |
pitutary gland | 234 | adrenal gland tumor | 43 |
lymph gland | 181 | gland in neck swollen | 43 |
gland parotid | 180 | cowpers gland | 41 |
pineal gland | 155 | gland neck | 41 |
salivary gland | 128 | gland pituatary | 39 |
thymus gland | 123 | cable gland | 35 |
bartholin gland | 84 | adrenal gland cancer | 28 |
anal dog gland | 81 | submandibular gland | 27 |
sweat gland | 75 | gland picture thyroid | 27 |
swollen lymph gland | 73 | anal canine gland | 26 |
parathyroid gland | 71 | pituitary gland and hormone | 24 |
endocrine gland | 68 | salivary gland infection | 24 |
gland neck swollen | 68 | parotid gland tumor | 24 |
pituitary gland tumor | 62 | gland in neck | 24 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "gland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | klier. (various references) | |
Albanian | gjëndër (follicle, glandule). (various references) | |
Arabic | غدة, سدادة (bung, infarct, logjam, peg, plug, spigot, spile, stop, stopper). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уплътнение (saddle, seal), жлеза. (various references) | |
Chinese | 腺 , 封垫 (glands). (various references) | |
Czech | žláza. (various references) | |
Danish | glandel, pakningsboesning, pakflange (follower, gland follower), pakdåse (annulus seal, gland box, packer, packing, stuffing box, valve gland), kirtel (glandular capsule). (various references) | |
Dutch | klier. (various references) | |
Faeroese | kertil, eitil. (various references) | |
Farsi | هرعضوترشح کننده , غده عرقی , غده (Knot, Tumor, Wen), حشفه مرد, دشبل , بظرزن . (various references) | |
Finnish | tiukennuslaippa (annulus seal, follower, packer, packing, stuffing box, valve gland), tiivistysholkki (annulus seal, gland box, packer, packing, stuffing box, valve gland), tiivistysholkin tiukennuslaippa, rauhanen. (various references) | |
French | glande. (various references) | |
German | Drüse, Schlauchanschluss (nipple). (various references) | |
Greek | αδένας. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכפש, לוז, פול (bean, broad bean, horse bean), בלוט". (various references) | |
Hungarian | mirigy (follicle, glandula, glandulae, glandule). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kelenjar. (various references) | |
Italian | ghiandola. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 腺 , グラ 陽性菌 (environmentally friendly, glans, glee club, gram-positive bacteria, grand, grand opera, grand piano, Grand Prix, Grand Prix race, grand sale, grand slam, grandstand play, grease, green, greeting card, ground). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | せ" (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard), グランド (grand, ground). (various references) | |
Korean | 동맥 (Arterial, Arteries, Artery, glands). (various references) | |
Manx | trellag, gland, fairaig (struma). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kjertel. (various references) | |
Papiamen | klir. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | glândula. (various references) | |
Romanian | glandã. (various references) | |
Russian | железа. (various references) | |
Scottish | f ireag (a gland). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žlezda. (various references) | |
Spanish | glándula. (various references) | |
Swedish | körtel (glandiform), packbox (gland packing, packing). (various references) | |
Thai | ต่อมไทรอย"์ (thyroid, thyroid gland). (various references) | |
Turkish | gudde, salmastra bileziği (packing ring), beze (meringue), bez (article of clothing, cloth, fabric, garment, linen, materials, swab). (various references) | |
Turkmen | mдz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | залоза. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | miếng đệm (spacer). (various references) | |
Welsh | chwarren (kernel). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | glandula. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gland": glandered, glanders, glandes, glandless, glands, glandular, glandularly, glandule, glandules. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "gland": gangland. (additional references) | |
Words containing "gland": ganglands, prostaglandin, prostaglandins. (additional references) | |
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"Gland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Egland, fland, Galand, gand, giland, glan, glande, glando, glane, glant, Glanz, glard, Glaud, glend, Glendhu, gline, glinz, glond, Golland, gulan, Gulland, iland. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gland" (pronounced gla"nd) |
| 4 | -l a" n d | bland, land, meadowland, planned, unplanned. |
| 3 | -a" n d | and, band, banned, brand, canned, command, demand, disband, expand, fanned, firsthand, grand, hand, manned, misunderstand, offhand, outmanned, panned, rand, remand, sand, scanned, spanned, stand, strand, tanned, understand, unmanned, withstand. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-l-n" | |
-1 letter: dang, glad, land, lang. | |
-2 letters: and, dag, dal, gad, gal, gan, lad, lag, nag. | |
-3 letters: ad, ag, al, an, la, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-l-n" | |
+1 letter: angled, dangle, glands, lading, lagend, ligand. | |
+2 letters: addling, aligned, angeled, balding, clanged, dangled, dangler, dangles, darling, daylong, dealing, dialing, dongola, flanged, garland, gladden, glanced, glandes, gleaned, gliadin, gnarled, goldarn, gonadal, gondola, grandly, jangled, ladings, ladling, lagends, landing, languid, larding, lauding, leading, ligands, loading, mangled, mangold, slanged, tangled, wangled. | |
+3 letters: alluding, anglepod, blindage, candling, cladding, cradling, dabbling, daddling, daggling, dallying, dandling, danegeld, danglers, dangling, dappling, daringly, darkling, darlings, dartling, dawdling, dazzling, dealings, delating, delaying, diagonal, dialings, dialling, dilating, dongolas, dragline, drawling, enlarged, fenagled, finagled, gangland, garlands, gladdens, gladding, gladness, glanders, glandule, gliadine, gliadins, golconda, goldarns, gonadial, gondolas, gonidial, handling, headlong, highland, ladening, landgrab, landings, largando, leadings, loadings, longhand, longhead, magdalen, maligned, mangolds, medaling, paddling, pedaling, pleading, raddling, saddling, saladang, sandling, scalding, seladang, signaled, spangled, twangled, ungalled, unglazed, unlading, waddling, windgall, wrangled. | |
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