bartholin's glands

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noun plural bartholin's glands two small reddish-yellow glands, one on each side of the vaginal orifice, that secrete a mucous lubricating substance during sexual stimulation in females 3
noun bartholin's glands either of two small, oval, mucus-secreting glands, one on each side of the base of the vagina. 1

before 1920

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1920-25; named after Caspar Bartholin (1655-1738), Danish anatomist, who described them in 1637

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