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Definition of Digestive gland
1. Noun. Any gland having ducts that pour secretions into the digestive tract.
Group relationships: Digestive System, Gastrointestinal System, Systema Alimentarium, Systema Digestorium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digestive Gland
Literary usage of Digestive gland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"D. The Mid-gut with the Stomach and digestive gland (Liver). The oesophagus leads
into a wider portion of the alimentary canal, the stomach. ..."
2. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1889)
"... suffocated in the secreted slime, and are carried towards the centre of the
leaf by a corresponding inflection of the stalk of the digestive gland. ..."
3. Outlines of zoology by John Arthur Thomson (1895)
"A large part of the visceral spiral is occupied by the so-called " liver," a
digestive gland of many qualities, producing juices which digest all kinds of ..."
4. Outlines of Zoology by John Arthur Thomson, Marion Isabel Newbigin (1906)
"The mid-gut is very short, but outgrowths from it form the large and complex
digestive gland. The mid-gut, here as always, is the digestive and absorptive ..."
5. An Elementary Course of Practical Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Newton Parker (1900)
"It has no chitinous lining, and the large duct of the digestive gland opens into
... The digestive gland is made up of three main lobes on either side and ..."
6. The Physiology of the Invertebrata by Arthur Bower Griffiths (1892)
"liver of Arimi rufa*, as well as Hrii.i-, is a digestive gland which is ...
If one considers that the Vertebrate liver is not a digestive gland in the ..."
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