Glands Flashcards
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Endocrine glands
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Ductless glands, secretes hormones, absorbed by blood and circulated into body
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Exocrine glands
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Ducts or tubes to take secretions away to the outside surface
3
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Endocrine glands locations
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Thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, pancreas
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Exocrine gland locations
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Salivary glands, sweat glands, gastric glands, pancreas
5
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Merocrine secretions
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Exocytosis
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Apocrine secretions
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Apart from the cell; loss of cytoplasm along with the secretion through packed vesicles in the apical portion of the cytoplasm
Milk production
7
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Holocrine secretions
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Glands that burst
Oil glands attached to hair follicles
8
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Goblet cell
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Found in both simple columnar and epithelium and pseudostratified columnar epithelium
