Bartholin's gland

[ bahr-toh-linz, bahr-tl-inz ]

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noun

, Anatomy.

either of two small, oval, mucus-secreting glands, one on each side of the base of the vagina.

1920–25; named after Caspar Bartholin (1655–1738), Danish anatomist, who described them in 1637

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