ductless gland
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of ductless gland
First recorded in 1840–50
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The thyroid, which in the adult is a complicated ductless gland, has in the young Ammocoetes the form of a longitudinal groove of the ventral wall of the pharynx.
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Thymus, thī′mus, n. a ductless gland near the root of the neck, of no known function, vestigial in adult man—that of veal and lamb called neck-sweetbread.
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At the present time the tendency among some writers is to make the ductless glands the responsible agents in almost all diseases.
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Occasionally diseases of other ductless glands, as the thyroid, may have amenorrhea as one of the first symptoms.
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In most of the extreme cases the dwarfing is the result of some defect in the ductless glands which regulate the normal growth of the body.
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