gland

Related to gland: endocrine gland, parotid gland, pituitary gland, pineal gland, prostate gland, thymus gland

the Gland Canyon

slang The breasts or one's cleavage. A pun on "the Grand Canyon" and mammary glands. Did she get a boob job? The Gland Canyon is much more noticeable these days.
See also: canyon, gland
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Gland Canyon

n. the cleavage (between the breasts). (see also Mammary Lane.) I’d like nothing better than being lost in Gland Canyon.
See also: canyon, gland
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • canyon
  • Gland Canyon
  • the Gland Canyon
  • bazoongies
  • bezongas
  • balloons
  • bawangos
  • dairies
  • garbanzos
  • bazooms
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These blood tests can define whether the thyroid gland's hormone production is normal, too high, or too low.
To track this down your doctor will ask if there's any thyroid disease in your family, if you have an autoimmune disease where your body has attacked your thyroid gland, or if your thyroid gland has spontaneously become overactive.
"In this case, the result is a sebaceous gland which --similar to tumors--continues to grow.
During the formation of the sebaceous gland, when a stem cell divided and gave rise to two daughter cells, this more often led to the formation of two new stem cells than into mature sebaceous gland cells.
Temporal expression of TGF-[alpha] in sublingual gland
Malignant tumours comprise 15-30% of all parotid tumours, 40% of submandibular gland tumours, 70-90% of sublingual and over 50% of minor salivary gland tumours.
Human submandibular salivary gland lies inferior to mylohyoid muscle while rat submandibular gland lies on anterior side of neck having submandibular lymph nodes on one side and sternum on the other side.
Ultrastructure of the major ampullate gland of the black widow spider, Latrodectus Hesperus.
A comparison of sweat gland diameter in dorsal, lateral, and ventral areas of all the body regions concluded that in dorsal area the maximum diameter was observed in abdomen dorsal followed by neck dorsal, head dorsal, thorax dorsal, and tail dorsal areas but the difference was significant (p<0.05) in the head, thorax, and tail.
The parotid gland weight of rats with STZ-induced diabetes in week 4 of the study was significantly lower as compared to the control rats.
Theories and speculations have been advanced about the pineal gland. The 17th-century French rationalist philosopher, Rene Descartes, believed the pineal gland to be the 'principal seat of the soul.'
Upon deeper examination, we discovered muscle fibers in the periphery of the mammary gland showed variation in size, initially thinner and then thicker.
Bilateral Hyperplasia of Bartholin's Gland: A Case Report.
Meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) is a chronic, debilitating disease, which affects millions of people worldwide.
Information regarding age, gender, tumor location and tumor size were determined for each salivary gland tumor type.