noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mammary gland
salivary gland
sweat gland
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
adrenal
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Pieters became so wasted he was sleeping 22 hours a day after his treatment and his adrenal glands became useless.
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In the case of estriol, the placenta utilizes a dehydroepiandrosterone precursor made in the adrenal glands of the fetus.
gastric
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It does, however, express histamine H 2 receptors, which are pharmacologically indistinguishable from those on human gastric glands .
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The larval stages occur in the gastric glands and can only be seen microscopically following processing of the gastric mucosa.
pineal
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Crow split his enemy's skull to the pineal gland .
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Melatonin, available over the counter, is a hormone produced inside the brain by the pineal gland .
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In reality it is a membrane, the pineal gland , regarded in the East as the seat of extra-sensory perception.
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Once, it seems, the pineal gland was an eye.
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The pineal gland is a small structure buried deep on the brain.
pituitary
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Also an enlargement of the pituitary gland is clearly correlated with large size, almost as if some kind of hormonal imbalance occurred.
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Leptin is thought to signal the brain through the hypothalamus, an organ that interacts with the pituitary gland .
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Bovine brain extracts and bovine pituitary glands have been identified as enriched sources of a mitogenic activity.
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The disease has also been linked to treatment with human growth hormones extracted from pituitary glands after death.
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Growth hormone is a protein made in the pituitary gland at the base of the brain.
salivary
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This short-tailed shrew can inflict an unpleasant bite with the help of spittle from its venomous salivary glands .
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I had great smell, excellent salivary glands , powerful tear ducts, and the vision of an old mole.
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The snake's venom glands are modified salivary glands, and the venom modified saliva.
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Twenty one days post-infection, flies were dissected and infected salivary glands were injected into mice.
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Binge-eating can cause menstrual disturbances, acute swelling of the stomach and also salivary gland enlargement.
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The venom glands are modified salivary glands located in the lower jaws.
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After so long eating recycled meals on Belial, her salivary glands sprang into life with sharp little pangs of anticipation.
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Immunohistological investigation shows the same changes in the gastrointestinal mucosa as seen in the salivary glands .
sebaceous
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Sufferers tend to have greasy skin due to an increase in the secretion of sebum, the oily substance from the sebaceous glands .
swollen
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Sore throat with swollen glands and a stiff neck.
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These may include night sweats, swollen glands , weight loss or a persistent cough.
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Yellow, green discharges too. Swollen glands in weak, sickly, pale, exhausted people.
thyroid
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Rich in easily assimilable vitamins, minerals and trace elements which are essential for the thyroid gland .
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Thyroxine is produced by the thyroid gland .
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They are used in medicine for the treatment of cancer and to detect thyroid gland disorders.
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Iodine 131, also a gamma and beta emitter, is particularly hazardous to the thyroid gland .
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Other medical conditions, such as an overactive thyroid gland , occasionally cause similar symptoms.
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This was said to be because of the risk of radioactive iodine emitted during the fire getting into people's thyroid glands .
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Graves's disease is a malfunction of the body's immune system whereby antibodies mistakenly attack the thyroid gland .
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Those species studied have large thyroid glands and a high level of circulating thyroid hormones.
■ NOUN
lymph
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There is usually a painless swelling of the lymph glands which drain the area of the primary sore.
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These antibodies are produced by the B cells in our lymph glands .
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Cancer of the lymph glands , he's got.
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Swollen lymph glands , then, are evidence that the body is busy manufacturing antibodies to some outside invader.
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It was lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands , that prompted Tsongas to leave the Senate in 1984.
prostate
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This includes massaging the prostate gland and massaging the urethra over a metal sound.
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The largest and most important of these is the prostate gland .
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The adult rat provides another example: it has been found that cells in its prostate gland need the hormone testosterone.
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Some men have an additional problem because an enlarged prostate gland can cause almost permanent incontinence.
sweat
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You have more sweat glands and blood vessels per square inch in your scalp than any other part of your body.
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Fat in round globules like pebbles, hair-roots like grass, capillary loops and sweat glands like worm tunnels.
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There is no evidence to suggest that sweat glands and their receptors remain unchanged after nerve degeneration.
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Still, although your paws are covered with sweat glands , you might like to walk around on the damp grass first.
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As mentioned before, sweat is produced from the sweat glands in the skin.
venom
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It is curious, too, to note that echidnas also possess spurs but their venom gland is non-functional.
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In its dorsal and pectoral fins this fish has spines equipped with venom glands .
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The snake's venom glands are modified salivary glands, and the venom modified saliva.
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Almost all the major fins possess spines and venom glands .
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The venom glands are modified salivary glands located in the lower jaws.
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The venom gland contracts and the venom shoots through a special canal into the wound.
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The fangs are hollow and are linked to a venom gland .
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The hollow spur is connected to a venom gland situated behind the knee, and can inflict an agonising wound.
■ VERB
produce
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As mentioned before, sweat is produced from the sweat glands in the skin.
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Thyroxine is produced by the thyroid gland .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The doctor noticed that the glands in my neck were swollen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All girls and women have these glands but they can be more noticeable on some girls.
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It does, however, express histamine H 2 receptors, which are pharmacologically indistinguishable from those on human gastric glands.
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It was lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands, that prompted Tsongas to leave the Senate in 1984.
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Melatonin, available over the counter, is a hormone produced inside the brain by the pineal gland .
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Physicians found that Bryan had been born without a properly-working thymus gland .
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Pieters became so wasted he was sleeping 22 hours a day after his treatment and his adrenal glands became useless.
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The larval stages occur in the gastric glands and can only be seen microscopically following processing of the gastric mucosa.
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Tiny glands at the bottom of these pits produce stomach acid.