Bar|tho|lin gland

Bar|tho|lin gland
Bar|tho|lin gland «bahr TOH lihn»,
either of a pair of small, oval glands, one on each side of the base of the vagina, that secrete mucus.
[< Caspar Bartholin, 1655-1738, a Danish anatomist, who discovered them]

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