ductless gland

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• All the organs of the body, the ductless glands included, are weakened.
• These cellular masses, designated as the ductless glands or glands of internal secretion, have during development lost their original connection with the epithelium of the free surface.
• They have no ducts from which to secrete their hormones and are sometimes referred to as the ductless glands. Acupressure and the Endocrine Glands
• During the eighteen-eighties, above all through the investigations of the Frenchman Brown-Séquard, attention had been directed to the importance for the vital functions of certain ductless gland-like organs. Physiology or Medicine 1923 - Presentation Speech
• Today's hype about genetic enhancement, cloning, and stem cells was preceded by a much earlier hype about hormones, secretions, and ductless glands.
• There is perhaps no more fascinating story in the history of science than that of the discovery of these so-called ductless glands. The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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• The thyroid is one of the so-called ductless glands, like the adrenals above the kidneys, the pineal gland and the pituitary body. The War Terror
• These integrations stimulate the brain-cells, the ductless glands, and other parts, and the energizing secretions, among which are epinephrin, thyroid and hypophyseal secretions, are thrown into the blood-stream, while that most available fuel, glycogen, is also mobilized in the blood. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
• As regards the ductless glands, the first clew to their function was given when the great Frenchman Claude Bernard (the man of whom his admirers loved to say, "He is not a physiologist merely; he is physiology itself") discovered what is spoken of as the glycogenic function of the liver. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences