glandular, a.
(ˈglændjʊlə(r))
[ad. F. glandulaire, f. glandule glandule: see -ar1.]
Of or pertaining to a gland or glandule; resembling, or of the nature of, a gland; containing, bearing, or consisting of, a gland or glands. a. Phys. b. Bot.
| a. 1740 Cheyne Regimen 188 The nervous membranous Tubuli, and the glandular Machinulæ. 1789 W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 83 Glandular obstructions..generally proceed from inactivity. 1836–9 Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 481/2 The prevailing ideas respecting the essential characters of the glandular organization are..vague and indefinite. 1856–8 W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 15 We cannot admit a proper Glandular Tissue, as most authors do. 1872 Huxley Phys. v. 117 The liver is the largest glandular organ in the body. |
| b. 1793 Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. Glandulosum, A glandular leaf, is that which has glands either on the surface or on the serratures. a 1794 Sir W. Jones Sel. Indian Plants Wks. 1799 II. 99 Germ awled; pointed, furrowed, with prominent seedlets, sitting on a glandular pedicel. 1859 Fairholt Tobacco (1876) 2 The leaves..are covered with glandular hairs. 1870 Hooker Stud. Flora 121 Rosa villosa..sepals more or less persistent densely glandular. |
Hence ˈglandularly adv.
| 1840 Paxton Bot. Dict., Glandularly-crenated, Glandularly-serrated, having crenatures or serratures tipped with glands. [And other examples.] |
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Add: 2. Special collocation: glandular fever [tr. G. Drüsenfieber] = infectious mononucleosis s.v. infectious a. 2 c.
| [1892 Ashby & Wright Dis. Children (ed. 2) xiv. 238 Such cases have been described by E. Pfeiffer, Heubner, and Rauchfuss,..under the name of gland fever.] 1896 Arch. Pediatrics XIII. 889 The disease was a general infection with a local manifestation in the lymphatic system, corresponding in detail to the disease described by Pfeiffer as glandular fever. 1958 [see Paul–Bunnell n.]. 1987 Jrnl. Laryngol. & Otol. CI. 673/2 The clinical picture of glandular fever is of an illness of variable duration in association with lymphadenopathy—almost always involving cervical nodes. |