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Meaning of glándula




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glándula
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In biology it is an organ that secretes some substance into or out of the individual. From the Latin glans, glandis ("acorn-shaped") the feminine diminutive suffix -ula, because the first with that name were the tonsils, which have a similar shape.

  



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