| 单词 | mucous gland |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmucous gland mucous gland n. Anatomy and Zoology (originally) a bulbourethral (Cowper's) gland; (later) any gland that secretes mucus. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > types of gland > [noun] miliary gland1691 mucilaginous gland1691 mucous gland1699 acinus1702 crypta1726 glandule1751 crypt1804 globate gland1813 ganglion1819 submaxillary1824 lacrimal1829 germ gland1840 sweat-gland1845 ductless glands1849 lymph node1892 metasternal1965 1699 W. Cowper in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 368 The two Glands above described, which from the Liquor they separate may be call'd Glandulæ Mucosæ... The upper part of this Muscle..passes immediately over the Mucous Glands. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2148/1 Mucous glands, in anatomy, three glands, which empty themselves into the urethra; so called by their first discoverer, Mr. Cowper, from the tenacity of the liquor which they separate. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. xxviii. 253 (heading) The mucous glands of the lip. 1929 H. L. Alexander Bronchial Asthma ii. 29 Bronchospasm..stimulates the mucous gland. 1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xi. 329 In amphibians, mucous glands are usually to be found on the tongue. < as lemmas |
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