单词 | mucilaginous gland |
释义 | > as lemmasmucilaginous gland mucilaginous gland n. (a) Anatomy any of the accumulations of adipose tissue beneath the synovial membrane of certain joints, originally supposed to secrete synovial fluid (now historical); (b) Zoology a spermatophoric gland of a cephalopod (now rare). 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 1691 C. Havers Osteol. Nova 189 I shall give them a more comprehensive name, such as Glandulæ Mucilaginosæ, or the mucilaginous Glands. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 261 The semilunar cartilages, mucilaginous glands, and the adipose substance, in which the glands were seated, were all moisten'd with sinophia. 1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) I. p. cclxxiii The fringed vascular folds of the synovial membrane were described, by Dr. Clopton Havers (1691), under the name of the mucilaginous glands, and he regarded them as an apparatus for secreting synovia. 1919 G. A. Drew in Jrnl. Morphol. 32 400 The portion of the spermatophoric organ joined by the vas deferens I will call the mucilaginous gland. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs vii. 139 The two mucilaginous glands..secrete the axial material, i.e. the mucous matrix of the sperm mass, the cement body and the filament. 1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) iv. 427/2 Accumulations of adipose tissue are characteristic of the synovial membrane of many joints, and these articular fat pads were mistakenly identified as ‘mucilaginous glands’ by earlier anatomists. 1992 M. Stachowitsch Invertebr. 248/1 Mucilaginous gland, spermatophore gland. < as lemmas |
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