| AACG | acute angle closure glaucoma |
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| AGE | acrylamide gel; acute gastroenteritis; advanced glycation end product; agarose gel electrophoresis; ... |
| AGF | adrenal growth factor; angle of greatest flexion |
| AM | Academic Medicine [journal]; actomyosin; acute myelofibrosis; adult male; adult monocyte; aerospace ... |
| am | ametropia; amyl; amplitude; before noon [Lat. ante meridiem]; meter angle; myopic astigmatism |
| pectoral glands | Numerous nodes around the axillary veins which receive the lymphatic drainage from the upper limb, scapular region and pectoral region (including mammary gland); they drain into the subclavian trunk. Synonym: nodi lymphatici axillares, axillary glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| meibomian glands | Sebaceous glands between the tarsi and the conjunctiva of the eyelids. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ceruminous glands | Apocrine sudoriferous glands in the external acoustic meatus. Synonym: glandulae ceruminosae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cervical glands | See: anterior cervical lymph nodes, lateral deep cervical lymph nodes, lateral superficial cervical lymph nodes. Branched mucus-secreting glands in the mucosa of the cervix. Synonym: glandulae cervicales uteri, cervical glands of uterus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cervical glands of uterus | See: anterior cervical lymph nodes, lateral deep cervical lymph nodes, lateral superficial cervical lymph nodes. Branched mucus-secreting glands in the mucosa of the cervix. Synonym: glandulae cervicales uteri, cervical glands of uterus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| perianal odouriferous glands | Exocrine glands in animals which secrete scents which either repel or attract other animals, e.g. Perianal glands of skunks, anal glands of weasels, musk glands of foxes, ventral glands of wood rats, and dorsal glands of peccaries. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mesenteric glands | See: mesenteric lymph nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peritracheal glands | <entomology> Insect structures that originate from the ectoderm of the ventrocaudal part of the head and serve as a source of ecdysone. Synonym: peritracheal glands, prothoracic glands, thoracic glands, ventral glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| perspiratory glands | The coil glands of the skin that secrete the sweat. Synonym: glandulae sudoriferae, Boerhaave's glands, perspiratory glands, sudoriferous glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Guerin's glands | Numerous mucous glands in the wall of the female urethra. Synonym: glandulae urethrales femininae, Guerin's glands, paraurethral glands, Skene's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peyer's glands | <anatomy> Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease. Origin: So called from J.K.Peyer, who described them in 1677. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pharyngeal glands | Racemose mucous glands beneath the mucous membrane of the pharynx. Synonym: glandulae pharyngeae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Philip's glands | Enlarged deep gland's just above the clavicle, found in children with pulmonary tuberculosis and occasionally in others. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ciaccio's glands | Small, compound, branched, tubular glands located in the middle part of the lid (Wolfring's glands, 1872, or Ciaccio's glands, 1874) and along the superior and inferior fornices of the conjunctival sac (Krause's glands, 1854). These accessory glands are just scattered scraps of lacrimal gland tissue; all of them produce the same kind of tears and debouch on to the conjunctival surface. Henle's and Baumgarten's "glands" are in fact not glands at all, but mere epithelial invaginations. Synonym: glandulae lacrimales accessoriae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ciliary glands | A number of modified apocrine sudoriferous glands in the eyelids, with ducts that usually open into the follicles of the eyelashes. Synonym: glandulae ciliares, Moll's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |