SECRETORY ORGAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secretory organ mean? 

• SECRETORY ORGAN (noun)
  The noun SECRETORY ORGAN has 1 sense:

1. any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream

  Familiarity information: SECRETORY ORGAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECRETORY ORGAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

gland; secreter; secretor; secretory organ

Hypernyms ("secretory organ" is a kind of...):

organ (a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function)

Meronyms (parts of "secretory organ"):

acinus (one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secretory organ"):

green gland (one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennae)

sericterium; serictery; silk gland (silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders)

duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)

ductless gland; endocrine; endocrine gland (any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream)