(a) Anatomy a gland or glandlike structure of the size of a millet seed; spec. a sebaceous gland; (b) Botany a stoma or pore (now rare).

(a) Anatomy any of the accumulations of adipose tissue beneath the synovial membrane of certain joints, originally supposed to secrete synovial fluid…

(originally) a bulbourethral (Cowper's) gland; (later) any gland that secretes mucus.

Anatomy. A small, sac-like structure lined with secretory cells and opening into a ductule or duct of an exocrine gland.

Anatomy. = crypt, n. 3. Usually in plural. Now rare.

A small gland.

Chiefly Anatomy. A depression in the surface of a structure, typically in the form of a shallow pit or tubular or saccular recess; spec. (more fully…

Anatomy. Designating lymphatic nodes (chiefly in globate gland). Cf. conglobate, adj. 2. Obsolete.

Anatomy. Any of a disparate group of glandular or gland-like organs including the thyroid and adrenal glands, the thymus, and the spleen. Obsolete.

A submaxillary part; esp. a submaxillary gland.

A lacrimal gland; (also) a lacrimal duct (rare). See compounds.

In senses 3a and (less commonly) 2, as germ cup, germ filament, germ gland, germ mass, germ shield, germ transmission, etc.

each of the numerous minute coiled tubular glands just beneath the skin which secrete sweat.

Having no duct.

any of several small rounded gland-like structures of the lymphatic system, which are disposed along the course of the lymph vessels and which are…

Entomology. A metasternal gland. rare.