A gland is an organ in an animal's body that synthesizes a substance such as hormones for release into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).

I've always been a technology nut, and I absolutely love it.

And all I can say is Our nut house is full, Britney.

A vegetable is not considered a grain, fruit, nut, spice, or herb.

Synthetic TRH is also used by physicians as a test of TSH reserve in the pituitary gland as it should stimulate the release of TSH and prolactin from this gland.

I personally obsessed about every nut, bolt and washer in these crazy things.

Gland is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Additionally, a plain washer may be used when the hole is a larger diameter than the fixing nut.

Excess radioiodine that does not get absorbed into the thyroid gland is eliminated by the body in urine.

Propylthiouracil also works outside the thyroid gland, preventing conversion of (mostly inactive) T4 to the active form T3.

Some like the Railway minister Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav went so far as to label Raj Thackeray as a nut case!!

The transcervical approach, a less invasive procedure, allows for removal of the entire thymus gland through a small neck incision.

Removal of the entire gland (radical perineal prostatectomy) was first performed in 1904 by Hugh H. Young at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Originally, according to the myth, the year was only 360 days long and Nut was sterile during these days, unable to bear children.

Alcohol also limits the production of vasopressin (ADH) from the hypothalamus and the secretion of this hormone from the posterior pituitary gland.

Each of these silk fibers exits from the spigot, and if you were to trace the fiber back into the spider, what you would find is that each spigot connects to its own individual silk gland. A silk gland kind of looks like a sac with a lot of silk proteins stuck inside.

An example of a neuroendocrine cell is a cell of the adrenal medulla (innermost part of the adrenal gland), which releases adrenaline to the blood.

The Coco de Mer ( Lodoicea maldivica ), a monocot tree in the Arecaceae (palm family), has the largest seeds (double nut seed) of any plant in the world.

The exact mechanisms are, however, not convincingly clarified, although removal of the thymus gland (thymectomy) in MG patients without a thymus neoplasm often have positive results.

I went down into the nut tree grove, to see the green plants of the valley, to see whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.

So the insight is how do you actually reverse engineer this and go from cocoon to gland and get water and protein that is your starting material.

Surgery tends to be done only when just one of the thyroid glands is affected (unilateral disease) however, following surgery, the remaining gland may become over active.

(2010) Clinically Oriented Anatomy 6th Ed External links Comparative Mammary Gland Anatomy by W. L. Hurley On the anatomy of the breast by Sir Astley Paston Cooper (1840).

And then we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin.

That, yes, it was the shirtless guy who was first, and he'll get all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

Geriatric use In the late 1940s, Gerber Products Company and Beech Nut produced special cookbooks to promote the sale of commercial baby foods for use by elderly, sick, or disabled people.

History Sympathectomy developed in the mid 19th century, when it was learned that the autonomic nervous system runs to almost every organ, gland and muscle system in the body.

He had seen a variety of internal and external medical specialists, and had had an MRI spinal examination, physiotherapy for his back and an X ray thyroid gland examination.

And the warden was quite amused, and he told me he thought that I was a nut and he told me, This place is a correction facility. These guys are serious offenders.

Denial of gay couples legal right to call themselves married is has become intolerably discriminatory. But allowing them to marry has proved a harder legislative nut to crack than allowing them civil partnerships.

Mammary stem cells Mammary stem cells provide the source of cells for growth of the mammary gland during puberty and gestation and play an important role in carcinogenesis of the breast.

The surgical approaches to the removal of the thymus gland include transsternal (through the sternum, transcervical (through a small neck incision), and transthoracic (through one or both sides of the chest).

Wood The lumber from Brazil nut trees (not to be confused with Brazilwood) is of excellent quality, but logging the trees is prohibited by law in all three producing countries (Brazil, Bolivia and Peru).

In a nut shell, in face of numerous difficulties and challenges, during the last three years, the Vietnamese Government has continued with the reform and recorded remarkable achievements in economic growth and social development.

The World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) provides a framework that could be useful for developing such objectives (Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories, IUCN and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K. (1994)).

The World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) provides a framework that could be useful for developing such objectives (Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories, IUCN and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, U.K. (1994)).

The silk worm does a remarkable thing it uses these two ingredients, protein and water, that are in its gland, to make a material that is exceptionally tough for protection so comparable to technical fibers like Kevlar.

There is a unique opportunity now with focused ultrasound guided by MR, because we can actually think about prostate lumpectomy treating just the focal lesion and not removing the whole gland, and by that, avoiding all the issues with potency and incontinence.

Another, conducted in the US, showed no evidence that PSA screening improved prostate cancer survival rates. In addition, a recent study comparing outcomes for patients whose prostate gland was surgically removed to those for patients who underwent only observation found no differences in survival rates between the two groups.