Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The glans penis.
- noun The glans clitoridis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the acorn, or a similar fruit.
- noun In medicine: A strumous swelling or enlargement of the thyroid gland; bronchocele; goiter.
- noun A pessary; a suppository.
- noun In anatomy, the head of the penis or of the clitoris. More fully called
glans penis and glans clitoridis. - noun [capitalized] In conchology, a genus of mollusks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.
- noun (Bot.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
- noun obsolete, obsolete Goiter.
- noun obsolete A pessary.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
vascular body which forms theapex of thepenis . - noun The
vascular body which forms theextremity of theclitoris . - noun The
acorn ormast of theoak and similar fruits. - noun A
goiter . - noun A
pessary . - noun rare Plural form of
glans .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The next most sensitive part of the penis is the glans, which is the head of the penis.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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The next most sensitive part of the penis is the glans, which is the head of the penis.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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The next most sensitive part of the penis is the glans, which is the head of the penis.
Great Sex for Moms M.D. Valerie Davis Raskin 2002
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This latter organ is external and situated at the extremity of the trunk; it is composed of two separate parts: of which the extreme part is fleshy, does not alter in size, and is called the glans; and round about it is a skin devoid of any specific title, which integument if it be cut asunder never grows together again, any more than does the jaw or the eyelid.
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This expansion, termed the glans penis, is moulded on the rounded ends of the corpora cavernosa penis, extending farther on their upper than on their lower surfaces.
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At the summit of the glans is the slit-like vertical external urethral orifice.
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Thus the glans, which is quite smooth in man and the higher apes, is covered with spines in many of the lower apes and in the cat, and in many of the rodents with hairs (marmot) or scales
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The tip of the penis, called glans pens, has an outlet for the blood to be drained out.
The Times of India 2010
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− body is composed of the urethra covered by corpus spongiosum, erectile corpus cavernosum muscle, and finally erectile bulbospongiosum muscle − penis ends in the "glans" penis; composed of soft erectile corpus spongiosum tissue; covered by elastic skin and can expand to
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With over 50 percent of one-year-old boys, the foreskin cannot be pushed over the glans, and with boys of three years of age, this inability still affects 10 percent.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
rolig commented on the word glans
pl. glandes (two syllables), thus, "They delighted in rubbing their glandes together" scans as an anapestic tetrameter.
November 10, 2009