Suzanne Somers

Your liver is your vital detoxification organ, and if it becomes overloaded with toxins from the food, drink, or medications you're consuming, you'll have more toxins circulating throughout your body, damaging your organs and glands. Detoxing your liver will help it work more efficiently - and help you slim your waistline.

American Actress

Diane Ackerman

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

American Poet

Ivan Pavlov

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

Russian Psychologist

Greg Davies

I have no desire to work my adrenal glands any harder than necessary. I like lazing around; it's pretty important to my well-being. But I also get bored, so that's when my culture-vulturing kicks in.

British Comedian

Adam Yauch

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

American Musician

Dave Barry

If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

American Journalist

H. L. Mencken

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

American Writer

Joan Collins

If you eat junk, you look like junk. People say, 'It's not my fault, it's my glands.' It's not; it's greed!

Cynthia Nixon

A couple of hanging glands have nothing to do with making someone a man.

Zig Ziglar

Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.

American Author

The term 'gland' in medicine refers to parts inside your body, not seen externally.

Inside the Body

'Gland' often relates to crucial bodily functions, especially secretion of substances.

Vital Functions

The presence of glands is normal, and not necessarily related to diseases.

Not Always Illness

In engineering, 'gland' frequently comes up in the context of maintaining machinery.

Machine Maintenance

A key duty of an engineering gland is to stop fluids from leaking from machinery.

Prevent Leakage

'Gland' in engineering is specialized lingo, not used commonly in everyday language.

Specialized Language

 consists mostly of hardened cells, called keratinocytes, and provides protection. Since its outer layer is constantly being shed and renewed, it's pretty easy to repair. But sometimes a wound penetrates into the dermis, which contains blood vessels and the various glands and nerve endings

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 and tear glands that secrete a protective film. But equally important was the accompanying evolution of the brain, with its expansion of the visual cortex to process the sharper and more colorful images it was receiving. We now know that far from being an ideal masterpiece of design,

The evolution of the...

 Each month beginning around puberty, the hormone-producing pituitary gland in the brain starts releasing two substances into the follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. When they reach the ovaries, they encourage the internal egg cells to grow and mature.

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 The droplets combine with each other and other molecules and are then expelled and stored in spaces between cells. Mammary glands eventually secrete the milk through the breasts, udders, or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen.

The science of milk -...

 Allows three other systems to regulate the body's environment the endocrine lymphatic and urinary systems The endocrine system is a series of glands that use information carried by the nervous system to help regulate the body's processes

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 their striking patches may help them stay cool it was found that underneath each darkened patch they had sweat glands but the size of these glands were significantly larger suggesting that indeed their skin plays a vital part in

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 pineal gland which is conveniently located right in the centre of the brain and a Massachusetts country doctor once claimed to have actually weighed the soul as it left the body at death three-quarters of an ounce he said but

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 to become more compassionate and caring. But here's what most people don't understand about oxytocin. It's a stress hormone. Your pituitary gland pumps this stuff out as part of the stress response.

How to make stress your...

 but his navigational equipment doesn't stop there wherever he goes glands on his barely laid on a scent that acts like a paper trail allowing him to retrace his steps back home

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 smart enough to cooperate marine iguanas takin too much salt with their food but with the help of special glands they sneeze it out

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