Plural of glandis or glans; in anatomy, the term for acorn-shaped structures (particularly the glans penis or glans clitoris).
From Latin glandis (acorn, gland). This is the Latin nominative plural form retained in anatomical English terminology.
Medical Latin often preserves Latin plurals—we say 'glandes' not 'glands' in formal anatomy because it's cooler and more precise, and it connects back to the Roman doctors who named everything.
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