lymph gland

Questions about lymph gland

What does lymph gland mean?

lymph gland means "the source of lymph and lymphocytes".

What is another word for lymph gland?

Close synonyms include lymph node, node. 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 lymph gland a common word?

lymph gland 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.