glandulous

[ glan-juh-luhs ]

adjective

1. glandular.

Other Words From

• glandu·lous·ness noun
• non·glandu·lous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of glandulous¹

1350–1400; Middle English glandelous < Latin glandulōsus full of kernels. See glandular ( def ), -ous

Example Sentences

Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

From Project Gutenberg

Neither is it convenient to apply the Actual Cautery to stop the H�morrhage, because it is apt to break forth again anew, when the Escar is fall'n off, When the Tumour is not as yet ulcerated, a Crucial Incision may be made in the Skin, without penetrating into the Glandulous Bodies; then the four Pieces of the Glandules being separated, the Cancerous Tumour may be held with the Forceps, and afterward cut off.

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The Anthrax is very near the same thing as the Carbuncle, only with this difference, that the latter always appears in the Glandulous Parts, and the Anthrax every where else.

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Herbert was not mistaken: he broke the stem of a cycas, which was composed of a glandulous tissue, containing a quantity of floury pith, traversed with woody fibre, separated by rings of the same substance, arranged concentrically.

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These united qualities correct acids in the stomach, cleanse the lungs, and open obstructions in the glands caused by coagulated serum; and the saline pungent oil altering the acids in the glands of the brain, by correcting and attenuating its lympha and succus nervosus, produces the same effect; for the lympha and nervous juice are, like other glandulous humours, liable to acidity and stagnation; therefore these aromatics, by exciting their motion and correcting their acidities, render the liquids of the nerves more volatile, and are therefore justly termed cephalics.

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