单词 | adenology |
释义 | adenologyn. Now rare or disused. A branch of medical science dealing with the structure and function of glands and lymphoid organs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > study of body > study of secretory organs > [noun] > glands adenography1689 adenology1721 1721 tr. L. Heister Compend. Anat. 297 Adenology [L. adenologia] is the Doctrine of the Glands. 1786 J. Aitken Princ. Anat. & Physiol. I. 3 Some arterial branches terminate in a convoluted manner, more or less intricate, and form numerous and variously sized masses, named glands or glandular system; the subject of adenology. 1847 Lancet 10 Apr. 380/2 By no means the least prominent feature in the present rapid progression of medicine and collateral sciences is our widely extended insight of the construction of glands and the process of secretion; in other words, the light thrown by chemistry and the microscope upon adenology. 1920 A. Schneider Pharmaceut. Bacteriol. (ed. 2) vii. 119 A statement of cytology and of embryology is essential to the better understanding of symbiology and the related sciences adenology and bacteriology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1721 |
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