an organ in a person’s or an animal’s body that produces a substance for the body to use; a part in the body that is similar to this, especially a lymph node 腺 a snake’s poison glands 蛇的毒腺 Her glands are swollen. 她的腺体肿胀。 She’s gone to bed with swollen glands and a temperature. 她因腺体发炎和发烧而卧床。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- enlarged
- swollen
- adrenal
- …
- release something
- secrete something
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French glande, alteration of Old French glandre, from Latin glandulae ‘throat glands’.