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Definition of Glandular
1. Adjective. Relating to or affecting or functioning as a gland. "Glandular malfunctions"
Definition of Glandular
1. a. Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
Definition of Glandular
1. Adjective. Pertaining to a gland or glands. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Glandular
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Glandular
1. Bearing glands, functioning as a gland. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glandular
Literary usage of Glandular
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"glandular. glandular. a crimson color and not at all the light red of our common
wild ... For example, the King is very glandular- hispid especially on the ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Natural size. deeply cut or notched lobes, the stalks glandular: peduncles ...
peduncles glandular-hairy: bracts longer than pedicel and flower: calyx flat: ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Acute glandular fever is an infectious disease developing, as a rule, ...
The fever is of short duration, but the glandular hypertrophy persists for from ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"2-6-fld., borne on very slender sts. which are glandular below and sparsely
glandular or glabrous above: fls. white; calyx glabrous, the lobes ovate, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Each of these afferent branchial vessels is enclosed in the cavity of a renal
organ and is covered externally by the glandular tissue which forms the ..."
6. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"The anatomical peculiarity of the glandular parts of the epidermis ... The wall
grows in thickness at the glandular spot, by intercalation of a layer ..."
7. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Not glandular or aromatic, often mealy and heavy-seen led Л. Flowers glomerate
... Flowers merely pulverulent-glandular ; lobes of leaves not angled, ..."
8. Lectures on surgical pathology by James Paget (1860)
"PART I. glandular TUMORS. WE may call those tumors "glandular" which, in their
structure, imitate the glands; whether the secreting glands, or those organs ..."
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