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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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How to use glands in a sentence

There is a long history of the mammary glands as comedy fodder.
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The HPA axis is a circuit between your brain, your hormone glands, and the rest of your body.
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But the attitude of doctors was that if the lymph glands were swollen it was a good sign of a body fighting infection.
Sean Strub: Sex, AIDS, Politics and Survival|Tim Teeman|January 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I can assure you that already in the Pavlovian swamps of the nutso right, the glands are swelling.
The Coming Attempt to Impeach Obama|Michael Tomasky|May 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

In Vienna she had undergone a new medical process, involving her endocrine glands, that rejuvenates the body and skin.
American Dreams, 1923: Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton|Nathaniel Rich|March 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
These migrate to the salivary glands, and are carried into the blood of the person whom the mosquito bites.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
It is secreted by the gastric glands, and is transformed into pepsin by the action of a free acid.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The tubercles and portions of the caseous glands should be crushed between two slides, dried, and stained for tubercle bacilli.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Sometimes those which do nothing but furnish these secretions are spoken of as "ductless glands," from their structure.
Taboo and Genetics|Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard
They are called endocrine glands or organs, and their chemical contributions to the blood are known as hormones.
Taboo and Genetics|Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard