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Definition of Glandular disease
1. Noun. A disorder of the glands of the body.
Generic synonyms: Disorder, Upset
Specialized synonyms: Hyperparathyroidism, Hypoparathyroidism, Hyperpituitarism, Addison's Disease, Addison's Syndrome, Hypoadrenalism, Hypoadrenocorticism, Adenopathy, Aldosteronism, Hyperaldosteronism, Cushing's Disease, Hyperadrenalism, Cushing's Syndrome, Hyperadrenocorticism, Hyperthyroidism, Thyrotoxicosis, Hypothyroidism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glandular Disease
Literary usage of Glandular disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the Most Eminent Persons, who Have Flourished by ---- Clarke (1832)
"Unfortunately, she was afflicted with a glandular disease, which, even in its
incipient state, occasioned her considerable suffering ; and shortly after she ..."
2. Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by John Marie Keating (1889)
"The glandular disease is therefore a secondary one. ... Naso-pharyngeal catarrh
is extremely apt to induce glandular disease, which in great measure ..."
3. Practice of Homoeopathy by Paul Francis Curie (1838)
"glandular disease. London, April, 1836.—C—, aged three years, had been ill nearly
two months. This little patient, when brought to me, betrayed a remarkable ..."
4. The Clinical Journal (1906)
"It is very common in glandular disease following upon throat trouble to find
round about the main lesion other small glands which become involved ..."
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