How to Use gland in a Sentence

gland

noun
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  • Cat paws have scent glands that will mark the blanket as their own.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The cancerous tumor had spread from the gland up to Jake's ear.
    — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 9 June 2023
  • The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
    — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
  • Those glands are called lymph nodes, which swell in response to illness.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health, 30 June 2023
  • The tumor had spread through the thyroid gland, onto the carotid artery and into the tracheal rings.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • That's the work of sebaceous glands, also known as oil glands.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
  • The thyroid is a gland located in the neck that helps control the body’s metabolic rate.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • This occurs when the glands in the mouth do not produce enough saliva, leaving you feeling parched and thirsty.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The chef also knows not everybody leaps at the thought of thymus glands for dinner.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • When their gland ducts were blocked, crazy ants had only a 48 percent survival rate.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2022
  • These cancers develop from the gland cells in the stomach's mucosa.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • However, when grabbed, the snakes will discharge a secretion from their anal gland, and some might strike.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Per Doctors If the cyst becomes infected and filled with pus, and forms an abscess, the gland will be tender, swollen, and red.
    — Women's Health, 26 June 2023
  • Prostate Disorders The prostate is a small gland in the male reproductive tract that helps make semen.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Seminal vesicle stones: These are small stones that form in the glands that produce semen.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 1 June 2023
  • The liquid the glands secrete is 99.5 percent water — its only function is to wet your skin.
    — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
  • His adrenal glands, where cortisol is made, weren’t working at all, just like his thyroid gland.
    — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Some of these genes cause variations in the structure of a person's sebaceous glands.
    — Angela Palmer, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The patients’ cancer was confined to the prostate, a walnut-sized gland that’s part of the reproductive system.
    — Carla K. Johnson, Fortune Well, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The body’s endocrine system are glands that produce hormones.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2023
  • These glands release an oily fluid that contains lipids and proteins.
    — Alexis Benveniste, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
  • These glands affect both the central nervous system and the endocrine system.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This man, instead, chose to take a medicine that interferes with the gland’s ability to make thyroid hormone.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • Your thymus is a gland that produces T cells, which are very important to your immune system.
    — Bill Gifford, Scientific American, 31 July 2023
  • As to the unknowns in the long run, there is the potential for more serious side effects involving the gall bladder and thyroid gland.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 1 Feb. 2024
  • A whole lot of sebaceous glands are concentrated on your nose.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 8 Sep. 2023
  • When alarmed, these animals lick these glands, transferring the toxins to their teeth, which are then used to attack predators.
    — USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The thymus gland is part of the immune system and churns out T-cells, which patrol the body and identify which cells are native to the body and which are outsiders that should be attacked.
    — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • But many biologists refused to believe that the brain might produce hormones like a mere gland.
    — Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The prostate gland has an epithelial part where the gland cells make PSA and prostate-specific antigens; those epithelial cells or stem cells that regenerate the gland cells are the source of cancer.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024

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