Glandular Tissue:: Epithelium

Question 1

Exocrine glands differ from Endocrine glands because?

Answer 1

Exocrine secretes product into a duct where endocrine glands are ductless they secrete directly into capillary network.

Question 2

what are the three types of secretory forms?

Answer 2

acinar, tubular or coiled

Question 3

What are the two different duct possibilities?

Answer 3

simple (unbranched) or compound (branched)

Question 4

Merocrine is what type of secretion? Holocrine? Apocrine?

Answer 4

1. release by exocytosis (most common)
2. Cell breaks down and releases entire contents
3. release of membrane bound vesicles (rare)

Question 5

Lacrimal gland is how long? how wide? how thick? acini in the lacrimal gland are surrounded by what kind of tissue?

Answer 5

20 mm long, 12 mm wide and 5 mm thick.

Myoepithelium (combo of muscle and epithelial tissue, contractile function)

Question 6

All exocrine glands are what kind of tissue?

Answer 6

Epithelium

Question 7

what are the three glands of the eyelid?

Answer 7

1. Melbomian glands (oil)
2. Zeis Glands (oil, small, attached to lash follicles)
3. Glands of Moll (sweat, apocrine rare).

Question 8

What are two accessory Lacrimal Glands? What kind of structure do they have?

Answer 8

1. Glands of Krause (fornix of conjunctiva)
2. Gland of Wolfring (above tarsal plate)

Structure;
complex branched duct system
Acinar secretory portion