Word Meanings - GLANS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The vascular body which forms the apex of the penis, and the extremity of the clitoris.

Related words: (words related to GLANS)

• VASCULARITY
  The quality or state of being vascular.
• CLITORIS
  A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PENIS
  The male member, or organ of generation.
• EXTREMITY
  One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man. 3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. "The extremity of bodily pain." Ray. 4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering;
• VASCULAR
  Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phænogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. Vascular plants , plants composed in part of vascular
• FIBROVASCULAR
  Containing woody fiber and ducts, as the stems of all flowering plants and ferns; -- opposed to cellular.
• PERIVASCULAR
  Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.
• GASTROVASCULAR
  Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of coelenterates.
• EXTRAVASCULAR
  Outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues. Destitute of vessels; non-vascular.
• NONVASCULAR
  Destitute of vessels; extravascular.