köken: From Middle High German drüese, alongside druose, druos, from Old High German druos (“swelling, swollen gland”). The gender and stem form of the Old High German are uncertain. It was probably a masculine, so the later forms in -e continue plural forms. Alternatively (or additionally) it may have been a feminine i-stem, in which case drüese continues the plural and oblique singular; druose (whence…
köken: From Proto-Turkic *beŕ (“gland”). Cognate with Kazakh без (bez, “gland”), Karachay-Balkar без (bez, “gland”), Uzbek bez (“gland”), Uyghur بەز (bez, “gland”), Turkmen mäz (“gland”), Turkish bez (“gland”), Tuvan бес (bes, “gland”), Chuvash пар (par, “gland”).
a (sac-shaped or tubular) gland or filtering organ (like a lymph node)
çekim: çoğul körtlar · tamlayan körtels
köken: From Old Swedish kirtel, of disputed origin, possibly from Middle Low German *kertele, metathetic form of kretele. Cognate with Danish kirtel, Norwegian Bokmål kjertel and Norwegian Nynorsk kjertel.
gland (organ that synthesizes and secretes substance)
çekim: çoğul rauhaset · tamlayan rauhasen
köken: rauha + -nen, diminutive of a dialectal word that is from Proto-Finnic *rauha (“gland, swelling”) (compare Estonian rahu, Ingrian rauha, Karelian rauhna, Livonian ro’ugõz, Votic ravvu), possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old Norse hrœrar (“groin”)).