gland disease

Questions about gland disease

What does gland disease mean?

gland disease means "a disorder of the glands of the body".

What is another word for gland disease?

Close synonyms include glandular disease, glandular disorder, adenosis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gland disease a common word?

gland disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.