Heart Failure Â». Heart failure is the pathophysiologic state in which the heart, via an abnormality of cardiac function (detectable or not), fails to pump blood at a rate commensurate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues and/or pumps only from an abnormally elevated diastolic filling pressure.
(Physiology) a glandular organ of vertebrates, consisting in man of two lobes situated below the thyroid. In early life it produces lymphocytes and is thought to influence certain immunological responses.
Glandular tissue is tissue that is designed to secrete something. It is one of the major forms of epithelial tissue, which is the tissue that lines and covers most of the body, from the skin to the inside of the stomach. There are several different kinds, differentiated by how they function.