GLANS
\ɡlˈanz], \ɡlˈanz], \ɡ_l_ˈa_n_z]\
Definitions of GLANS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.
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The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
By Oddity Software
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The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.
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The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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A nut; a hard, dry, indehiscent one-celled fruit like an acorn; a gland, especially the glans penis.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Genitive glandis, (' an acorn.') Balanus, Cyttaros, Cuspis, Caput, C. Penis, Genitale caput, (F.) Gland. The extremity of the penis and of the clitoris. The glans penis is of a conical, slightly flattened shape. It is continuous with the urethra, which opens at its apex; and is circumscribed by a projecting edge, called the Corona glandis, behind which is a depression. Collum seu Sulcus retroglandularis. It is covered by a thin mucous membrane, is furnished, at its base, with sebaceous follicles, called glanduloe odoriferoe Tysoni, the secretion from which is termed Smegma preputii; and can, almost always, be covered by the reflection of the skin, called the prepuce. Lastly, it is formed of a spongy texture, susceptible of being thrown into erection.
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Bronchocele, Pessary, Suppository.
By Robley Dunglison
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An acorn or any similar fruit, also any fruit having a kernel; a dry, indehiscent fruit with a hardened pericarp containing only one seed.
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Any object bearing a fancied resemblance to a nut, such as the head of the penis or of the clitoris, a suppository, a globular pessary, or a goiter.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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