1690s, from French glande (Old French glandre "a gland," 13c.), from Latin glandula "gland of the throat, tonsil," diminutive of glans (genitive glandis) "acorn, nut; acorn-shaped ball," from PIE root *gwele- (2) "acorn" (cognates: Greek balanos, Armenian kalin, Old Church Slavonic zelodi "acorn;" Lithuanian gile "oak"). Earlier English form was glandula (c. 1400); Middle English also had glandele "inflamed gland" (c. 1400). Extended from tonsils to glands generally.
例文
1. Her mother has an underactive adrenal gland .
彼女の母親は副腎機能不全だった。
2.This a snake 's poison gland .
これが蛇の毒腺です。
3.The duct that drains the entire gland is the main duct.
腺全体のカテーテルをまとめて主カテーテルと呼ぶ。
4.Bronchography may reveal dilated enlarged ducts of hypertrophic gland .
気管支造影は肥大した腺の腺管が拡張し腫れていることを示す。
5.It is also an endocrine gland secreting at least two important hormones.