Gland

(noun.) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream.

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• The feathers on a duck are very heavy and close together, and at the bottom of each feather is a little oil gland that supplies a certain amount of oil to each feather. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Trained men, some of them veterinarians, in the employ of the government, make a thorough inspection of the glands and other organs of the hog. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It may be due to a condition of fulness of the vessels of the stomach, relieved by any stimulus which, acting on the lining membrane, induces a flow of fluid from the glands. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus may be considered, in comparison with the udders of a cow, as in a nascent condition. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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