| circumanal glands | Large apocrine sweat glands surrounding the anus. Synonym: glandulae circumanales, Gay's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| minor salivary glands | The smaller, largely mucous-secreting, exocrine gland's of the oral cavity, consisting of the labial, buccal, molar, lingual, and palatine gland's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Waldeyer's glands | Coil gland's near the margins of the eyelids. (05 Mar 2000) |
| molar glands | Four or five large buccal glands in the neighborhood of the last molar tooth. Synonym: glandulae molares. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Moll's 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) |
| coeliac glands | Nodes located along the coeliac trunk which drain lymph from the stomach, duodenum, pancreas, spleen, and biliary tract and drain to the cisterna chyli via the right and left intestinal lymphatic trunks. Synonym: nodi lymphatici coeliaci, coeliac glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wasmann's glands | Branched tubular glands lying in the mucosa of the fundus and body of the stomach; such glands contain parietal cells that secrete hydrochloric acid, zymogen cells that produce pepsin, and mucous cells. Synonym: glandulae gastricae, glandulae propriae, fundus glands, gastric follicles, Wasmann's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Weber's glands | Muciparous gland's at the border of the tongue on either side posteriorly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Montgomery's glands | A number of small mammary glands forming small rounded projections from the surface of the areola of the breast; they enlarge with pregnancy and during lactation secrete a substance presumed to resist chapping. Synonym: glandulae areolares, Montgomery's follicles, Montgomery's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wepfer's glands | Small, branched, coiled tubular glands that occur mostly in the submucosa of the first third of the duodenum; they secrete an alkaline mucoid substance that serves to neutralise gastric juice. Synonym: glandulae duodenales, Brunner's glands, Wepfer's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mucous glands of auditory tube | Glands located principally near the pharyngeal end of the auditory tube. Synonym: glandulae tubariae, glands of auditory tube, glands of eustachian tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wolfring'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) |
| conjunctival glands | Clusters of mucous cells in the conjunctival epithelium, most numerous on the bulbar conjunctiva. Synonym: glandulae conjunctivales, Terson's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cowper's glands | <radiology> Bulbourethal glands, 1.5 - 2.0 cm long, originate from posterior part of bulbous urethra, seen on retrograde urethrography: in chronic urethritis, s/p TURP (12 Dec 1998) |
| cutaneous glands | Any of the glands of the skin. Synonym: glandulae cutis. (05 Mar 2000) |