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List of glands of the human body

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This article contains a list of glands of the human body

# Name(s) Location Product Structure
1 Apocrine sweat glands skin coiled tubular
2 Anterior lingual glands tongue, near tip nonserous or mixed
3 Brunner's glands, duodenum mucous compound tubular
4 Submucosal glands, lungs mucous
5 Bulbourethral glands, Cowper's glands, penis, base pre-ejaculate tubulo-alveolar
6 Ceruminous glands ear cerumen
7 Accessory lacrimal glands, Ciaccio's glands eye tears
8 Ebner's glands tongue serous
9 Eccrine sweat glands skin coiled tubular
10 Esophageal glands esophagus mucous racemose
11 Exocrine pancreas pancreas serous tubulo-acinar
12 Gastric chief cell, stomach serous
13 Glomus coccygeum, coccygeal gland, Luschka's gland or gangliona coccyx, near the tip
14 Goblet cells digestive tract, respiratory tract mucous simple unicellular
15 Henle's glands eyelids, in the conjunctiva tubular
16 Krause's glands conjunctiva, middle portion mucous
17 Lieberkuhn's glands intestines, surface of mucous membrane digestive enzymes simple tubular
18 Littré's glands, Morgagni's glands spongy portion of the urethra mucous racemose
19 Lumbar glands abdomen, near the back
20 Mammary gland breast milk compound tubulo-acinar
21 Meibomian gland eyelids sebaceous
22 Moll's glands eyelids sebum
23 Montgomery's glands mammary areola sebaceous
24 Naboth's glands cervix and os uteri mucous
25 Olfactory glands, Bowman's glands nose, olfactory region mucous
26 Paneth cells small intestine serous
27 Gley's glands, Sandstroem's glands, parathyroid gland in the neck parathyroid hormone
28 Parietal cell stomach hydrochloric acid, intrinsic factor dynamic canaliculi
29 Parotid gland mouth saliva tubulo-alveolar
30 Peyer's patches (or glands) ileum, lymphatic glands
Pineal gland brain melatonin
31 Prostate surrounds the urethra just below the urinary bladder tubulo-alveolar
32 Pyloric glands antrum of the pylorus, stomach mucous, gastrin simple branched tubular
33 Sebaceous gland skin sebum acinar - branched
34 Skene's gland, lesser vestibular gland, paraurethral gland vestibule of the vulva, around the lower end of the urethra serous tubulo-alveolar
35 Sublingual gland, Rivini's gland mouth mucus (primarily) tubulo-alveolar
36 Submandibular gland mouth mixed (M+S) tubulo-alveolar
37 Sudoriparous glands, Boerhaave's glands skin
38 Sigmund's glands epitrochlear lymph nodes of axilla
39 Suzanne's gland mouth, beneath the alveolo-lingual groove[1] mucous
40 Tiedmann's glands, Bartholin's glands, vulvovaginal glands vulva, vagina
41 Tubarial glands posterior nasopharynx, over the torus tubarius[2] saliva
42 Uterine glands uterus histotroph (uterine milk) tubular
43 Weber's glands tongue mucous tubular
44 Glands of Zeis eyelids, free edges sebaceous

Skin

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There are several specialized glands within the human integumentary system that are derived from apocrine or sebaceous gland precursors. There are no specialized variants of eccrine glands.

Specialized glands within the human integumentary system
# Name Precursor gland derived from[3] Anatomic location
1 Ceruminous gland Apocrine Ear canal
2 Mammary gland Apocrine Breast
3 Moll's gland Apocrine Eyelid margin
4 Tyson's gland Sebaceous Genital skin
5 Meibomian gland Sebaceous Tarsal plate
6 Gland of Zeis Sebaceous Associated with eyelashes on eyelid margin
7 Montgomery gland Sebaceous Areola
8 Fordyce spot Sebaceous Vermillion border

Endocrine glands

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See List of human endocrine organs and actions

References

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  1. ^ Anil Ghom, Shubhange Mhaske. Oral pathology. p. Glossary, 837.
  2. ^ Valstar, Matthijs H.; de Bakker, Bernadette S.; Steenbakkers, Roel J.H.M.; de Jong, Kees H.; Smit, Laura A.; Klein Nulent, Thomas J.W.; van Es, Robert J.J.; Hofland, Ingrid; de Keizer, Bart; Jasperse, Bas; Balm, Alfons J.M.; van der Schaaf, Arjen; Langendijk, Johannes A.; Smeele, Ludi E.; Vogel, Wouter V. (September 2020). "The tubarial salivary glands: A potential new organ at risk for radiotherapy". Radiotherapy and Oncology. 154: 292–298. doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2020.09.034. hdl:11370/923f3f0d-e48e-4dc0-a574-a61a09c9c5d5. PMID 32976871.
  3. ^ Eccrine glands have no specialized variants.
  1. Michael H. Ross & Wojciech Pawlina, Histology: A Text and Atlas