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pickpocket (iou) and Tiedemann's gland (medicine)


pickpocket (iou)



pickpocket noun & verb. L16.
[from PICK verb1 + POCKET noun.]
A. noun.
A person who steals from the pockets of others. L16.
Any of various weeds which impoverish the land, esp. shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris, and corn spurrey, Spergula arvensis. dial. L19.
b. verb intrans. & trans. Steal from the pockets of (a person). Chiefly as pickpocketing verbal noun. L17.

Tiedemann's gland (medicine)


Tiedemann's gland -->
greater vestibular gland


One of two mucoid-secreting tubuloalveolar glands on either side of the lower part of the vagina, the equivalent of the bulbourethral glands in the male; ensheathed with vestibular bulbs by ischiocavernosus muscles. Thus erection and muscle contraction cause secretion into vestibule of vagina.

Synonym: glandula vestibularis major, Bartholin's gland, Duverney's gland, Tiedemann's gland, vulvovaginal gland.