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Exocrine glands - Coggle Diagram
Exocrine glands
Type of secretion
merocrine gland
holocrine
apocrine
sweat gland
merocrine secretion
axilla
circumanal region
mons pubis
eccrine
sweat gland
adenomer
pseudostratified epithelium
nature of secretion
serous
ex: parotid
mucous
ex:sublingual
seromucous (mixed)
Serous Demilunes
ex: submandibular
myoepithelial cells
Extraparietal
Salivary glands
Parotid
Submandibular
Sublingual
Liver
Pancreas
Compound
Tubular
duodenum: submucosal brunner's glands
Acinar
exocrine pancreas
Tubuloacinar
sublingual salivary glands
parotid
submandibular glands
pancreatic acinus
mammary gland
Intraparietal
Intraepithelial
unicellular glands
goblet cells (nasal mucosa)
multicellular glands
Glands of Littre (Urethra)
nasal mucosa
secretory epithelial sheets
surface mucous cells (stomach)
Exoepithelial
nasal seromucous glands
simple
simple tubular
straight
Large Intestine
Crypts of Lieberkühn
intestinal glands of the colon
coiled
skin
eccrine sweat glands
branched
gastric glands: mucus secreting glands of the pylorus
uterine glands & endometrial glands
simple acinar (alveolar)
single
mucous glands of urethra: paraurethral and periurethral glands
branched
skin: sebaceous glands
stomach: mucus-secreting glands of cardia