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glans
[ glanz ]
glans
/ ɡlænz /
noun
- anatomy any small rounded body or glandlike mass, such as the head of the penis ( glans penis )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glans1
First recorded in 1640–50; from Latin glāns literally, “acorn, beechmast”; akin to Greek bálanos
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Word History and Origins
Origin of glans1
C17: from Latin: acorn; see gland 1
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Example Sentences
And as the glans of man are the seat of the greatest pleasure in copulation, so is this in the woman.
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I have seen similar perforations in the parietes of a few specimens of A. glans.
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The animal's body was in a bad state of preservation; but, as far as I could make out, the cirri resembled those of A. glans.
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It is most marked in chancres situated in the furrow between the glans and the prepuce.
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Juglans is from Jovis, signifying Jove's, and glans, signifying acorn.
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