glandless
Lacking secretory organs
Glandless means lacking glands—organs that secrete substances like hormones, sweat, or oils.
The term appears in biology and anatomy: glandless skin, glandless varieties of cotton (bred without the pigment glands that produce gossypol).
Figuratively rare, but could describe someone who seems to lack the biological responses others have: He was glandless, unmoved by fear or desire.
ductless
Without internal tubes
- exocrineSecreting externally via ducts
- sebaceousOil-secreting, of skin
- salivaryOf spit-producing glands
sweat · mammary · thyroid · pituitary · adrenal · pineal · thymus · parathyroid · lacrimal · prostate
lacking
Being without something
without · bare · stripped · smooth · clean · hormone-free · dry