(music) A talking drum of West Africa.

(fishing) A short line attached to a trawl.

plural of gangion

A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.

Of or pertaining to the Ganges river.

(organic chemistry) An organic compound found in the lichen Lecanora gangaleoides.

(anatomy) A large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.

(neuroanatomy) Synonym of pterygopalatine ganglion.

(medicine) A form of gangrene occurring particularly in old people, and usually caused by insufficient blood supply due to degeneration of the walls of the smaller arteries.

Relating to the rivers Indus and Ganges, to the fertile plain of the northern Indian subcontinent which encompasses the drainage basins of said rivers, or to any of certain ancient civilisations associated with the plain.