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DUCTLESS GLANDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 633 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUCTLESS GLANDS , in See also:

anatomy. A certain number of glands in the See also:body, often of See also:great physiological importance, have no ducts (See also:Lat. due/us, from ducere, to See also:lead, i.e. vessels, tubes or canals for conveying away fluid or other substance); and their products, known as See also:internal secretions, are at once carried away by the See also:veins or lymphatics which drain them. Among these structures are the See also:spleen, the adrenals, the See also:thyroid gland, the parathyroids, the thymus and the See also:carotid and See also:coccygeal bodies. In addition to these the lymphatic glands are described in the See also:article on the lymphatic See also:system (q.v.), and the pineal and pituitary bodies in the article on the See also:brain (q.v.).

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