- multicellular gland
- a gland in which many cells cooperate to produce a gland complex, represented in its simplest form by a secretory sheet (q.v.) of epithelial cells.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
multicellular gland
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Stobbe's gland — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Lepidoptera, paired multicellular aphrodisiac pheromone producing glands in the second abdominal segment of male noctuids … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
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apocrine — adj. Biol. (of a multicellular gland, e.g. the mammary gland) releasing some cytoplasm when secreting. Etymology: APO + Gk krino to separate … Useful english dictionary
snout organ — an innervated group of cells in a round capsule at the end of a jelly filled tube opening to the skin surface of Gymnarchidae and Mormyridae; electric sense organ. Also called mormyromast or multicellular gland … Dictionary of ichthyology
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