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GLANS (glandes)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glans mean?
• GLANS (noun)
The noun GLANS has 1 sense:
1. a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris
Familiarity information: GLANS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("glans" is a kind of...):
anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glans"):
glans clitoridis (small mass of erectile tissue at the end of the body of the clitoris)
glans penis (the conical mass of erectile tissue that forms the head of the penis)
Context examples
It is usually superficial and arises from the shaft and rarely the glans.
(Penile Basal Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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