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Wasmann's glands (medicine) and blight 2, verb (oh)


Wasmann's glands (medicine)


Wasmann's glands -->
gastric glands


Branched tubular glands lying in the mucosa of the fundus and body of the stomach; such glands contain parietal cells that secrete hydrochloric acid, zymogen cells that produce pepsin, and mucous cells.

Synonym: glandulae gastricae, glandulae propriae, fundus glands, gastric follicles, Wasmann's glands.


blight 2, verb (oh)



2 v [T]
to spoil or damage something, especially by preventing people from doing what they want to do
::a disease which, though not fatal, can blight the lives of its victims
::a country blighted by poverty
-- blightĄ¤ed adj
::blighted hopes