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gland

noun
🔊/ɡlænd/
🔊/ɡlænd/
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  1. an organ in a person’s or an animal’s body that produces a substance for the body to use; a part in the body that is similar to this, especially a lymph node腺
    • a snake’s poison glands蛇的毒腺
    • Her glands are swollen.她的腺体肿胀。🔊🔊
    • She’s gone to bed with swollen glands and a temperature.她因腺体发炎和发烧而卧床。
    see also adrenal gland, pineal, pituitary, prostate, thymus, thyroidTopics Bodyc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • enlarged
    • swollen
    • adrenal
    • …
    gland + verb
    • release something
    • secrete something
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    Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae ‘throat glands’.