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1. gland
noun. ['ˈglænd'] any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.
Synonyms
Etymology
- glans (Latin)
Rhymes with Gland
- misunderstand
- vallegrande
- understand
- withstand
- meadowland
- lefthand
- unplanned
- righthand
- marchand
- firsthand
- expand
- disband
- bourland
- unmanned
- strande
- strand
- remand
- outmanned
- offhand
- laband
- hoiland
- fernand
- demand
- deland
- command
- stand
- spanned
- scanned
- planned
- grande
Sentences with gland
1. Noun, singular or mass
The thyroid gland is located in the middle to low anterior portion of the neck.
Quotes about gland
1. My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
- Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
2. There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room...
- Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers