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Gland vs Tissue - What's the difference?

gland | tissue |

As nouns the difference between gland and tissue

is that gland is (zoology) an organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland) or gland can be (mechanical) a compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier examples: while tissue is thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.

As a verb tissue is

to form tissue of; to interweave.

gland

English

(wikipedia gland)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) An organ that synthesizes a substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).
  • (botany) A secretory structure on the surface of an organ.
    • Hyponyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * adrenal gland * endocrine gland * exocrine gland * glanders * glandular * glandule * glandulous * mammary gland * pituitary gland * sweat gland * thyroid gland

    See also

    * organ

    Etymology 2

    19th century. Etymology unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mechanical) a compressable cylindrical case and its contents around a shaft where it passes through a barrier, intended to prevent the passage of a fluid past the barrier. Examples:
    • a. used around a ship’s propeller shaft.
    b. used around a tap, valve or faucet.

    tissue

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue . […].}}
  • A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
  • * Dryden
    • a robe of tissue , stiff with golden wire
  • * Milton
    • In their glittering tissues bear emblazed / Holy memorials.
  • A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
  • Absorbent paper as material.
  • (biology) A group of similar cells that function together to do a specific job
  • * 1924 , ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 10.
    • But it is similarly necessary that flesh and each of the other tissues should be the ratio of its elements, or that not one of them should;
  • Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
    • a tissue of forgeries, or of lies
  • * A. J. Balfour
    • unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion

    Verb

    (tissu)
  • To form tissue of; to interweave.
    • Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. — Francis Bacon.

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