glands

Cultural  

1. Organs or groups of cells that take substances from the blood and change them chemically so that they can be secreted later for further use by the body. There are two kinds of glands: those that secrete their substances directly into the bloodstream (endocrine glands), and those that secrete their substances through channels or ducts (such as sweat glands and salivary glands).

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Example Sentences

A phaeochromocytoma is a rare tumour of the adrenal glands, which sit above the kidneys, the NHS says.

From BBC

Skunks spray an oily liquid from glands underneath their tails as a defense.

From Literature

He described them as a "highly intelligent" and "active predator" equipped with "specialised glands that produce venom to incapacitate its prey".

From BBC

Her family then arranged a private appointment and she was referred to a specialist, who gave Jess a terminal cancer diagnosis of adenocarcinoma, cancer of the glands that line the organs, in November.

From BBC

When he arrived in Massachusetts for his first fellowship studying parathyroid hormone, Habener found a ready source of thyroid glands to study from a local Cambridge slaughterhouse that supplied calf meat.

From The Wall Street Journal