See Also: Theile's glands(medicine)
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nasal glands(medicine)
molar glands(medicine)
mesenteric glands(medicine)

dairy (iou) and Theile's glands (medicine)


dairy (iou)



dairy noun & verb. ME.
[from DEY noun1 + -ERY, -RY.]
A. noun.
A room or building for keeping milk and cream and making butter, cheese, etc.; a shop for milk etc.; a company that distributes milk etc.; NZ a local shop selling groceries (including milk) and Other goods. ME.
A dairy farm; that department of a farm or farming which is concerned with the production of milk etc. ME.
Comb.: dairy cattle, dairy cow, etc.: kept for milk production; dairy cream real cream made from milk; dairy factory (chiefly NZ): for making butter and cheese; dairy farm, dairy farming: concerned largely with the keeping of cows for milk production; dairy-free adjective containing no milk product; dairymaid a woman employed in a dairy; dairyman (a) a man employed in a dairy or in dairy farming; (b) a man who deals in dairy products; dairy products milk and its Derivatives (cream, butter, cheese, etc.).
b. verb.
verb intrans. Keep a dairy farm; produce milk and dairy products. Chiefly as dairying verbal noun. M17.
verb trans. Keep or feed (cows) for milk. rare. L18.

Theile's glands (medicine)


Theile's glands -->
glands of biliary mucosa
Small, mucous, tubuloalveolar glands in the mucosa of the larger bile ducts and especially in the neck of the gallbladder.

Synonym: glandulae mucosae biliosae, Luschka's cystic glands, Theile's glands.