a. Anat. [f. proper name Tyson (see def.) + -IAN.] Pertaining to or discovered by Edward Tyson, an English anatomist (1649–1708); applied to the sebaceous glands of the prepuce, also called Tyson’s glands.
1885. trans. H. von Ziemssen’s Handbk. Dis. Skin, 51. In this class the few Tysonian glands of the glans penis and prepuce also belong.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
1900–13. in Dorland, Med. Dict.
