Sentence examples for the gland from inspiring English sources

The radioactive iodine, injected into the gland, in the cat's neck, shrinks the tumor.

In some cases, the gland swells, producing a noticeable lump in the neck, a goiter.

When the gland is destroyed, hyperthyroid patients become hypothyroid and need to take daily hormone medication.

Days later, the results came casually through: the gland, biopsied, showed metastasis.

Emotional stress stimulates contraction of the gland, expelling its contents.

In lizards, the gland is midway along the tract.

When doctors do a biopsy for prostate cancer, they probe the gland with a needle, hoping to find cancer cells.

The surgeon stapled the adrenal vein and gently separated — tug, snip, tug, snip — the gland, which would stay with her.

The cells of the gland depend upon androgens for growth; these hormones also promote the growth of cancer.

(Curiously, the gland occurs in both males and females, but is 23 times larger in the male).

He identified the gland, near the base of the throat, as a primary source for the body's defense mechanisms.