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Parade (medicine)


parade


1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.

2. An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are General, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. "Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade." (Swift)

4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen. "In state returned the grand parade." (Swift)

5. Posture of defense; guard. "When they are not in parade, and upon their guard." (Locke)

6. A public walk; a promenade. Dress parade, Undress parade. See Dress, and Undress. Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless.

Synonym: Ostentation, display, show.

Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or Other qualities for which one expects to be honored. "It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power." . "We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories." .

Origin: F, fr. Sp. Parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for Exercise, a place where troops are assembled to Exercise, fr. Parar to stop, to prepare. See Pare.

1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. "Parading all her sensibility." (Byron)

2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to manoeuvre or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.

Origin: Cf. F. Parader.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Blandin's gland (medicine)


Blandin's gland -->
anterior lingual gland


One of the small mixed glands deeply placed near the apex of the tongue on each side of the frenulum.

Synonym: glandula lingualis anterior, apical gland, Bauhin's gland, Blandin's gland, Nuhn's gland.