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Definition of Ductless
1. Adjective. Not having a duct. "Ductless glands"
Definition of Ductless
1. a. Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.
Definition of Ductless
1. Adjective. having no duct ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ductless
1. being without a duct [adj]
Medical Definition of Ductless
1. Having no duct; denoting certain glands having only an internal secretion. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ductless
Literary usage of Ductless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"SECRETION OF THE ductless GLANDS-INTERNAL SECRETION. The term "internal secretion"
is used to designate those secretions of glandular tissues which, ..."
2. Essentials of physiology by Francis Arthur Bainbridge, James Acworth Menzies (1916)
"The spleen differs from the other ductless glands in that it is concerned ...
The formation of an internal secretion is not confined to the ductless glands. ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1914)
"In the meantime the ductless glands were coming to be known among the German ...
no special function could be assigned to the different ductless glands. ..."
4. The Exceptional Child by Maximilian Paul Eugen Groszmann (1917)
"The adjusting mechanisms of development are more or less reciprocal; thus a
ductless gland not only influences development, but is itself influenced by ..."
5. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1919)
"Some of the most elaborate relationships of the ductless glands are based on ...
From a survey of the literature today concerning the ductless glands we ..."
6. The Physiology of Man: Designed to Represent the Existing State of by Austin Flint (1874)
"THE ductless GLANDS. Probable office of the ductless glands—Anatomy of the ...
Indeed, the supposition that the ductless glands effect some change in the ..."
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