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Glandular epithelium
Hole's Ch. 5--Glandular epithelium
Question | Answer |
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Glandular epithelium is composed of | composed of cells that are specialized to produce and secrete substances into ducts or into body fluids. |
Exocrine glands | secrete their products into ducts that open onto dome internal or external surface |
Endocrine glands | secrete their products into tissue fluid or blood |
goblet cell | An example of a unicellular exocrine gland |
Multicellular exocrine glands are divided into | simple and compound glands |
A simple gland | has an unbranched duct |
a compound gland | has a branched duct |
Tubular glands | glands that consist of epithelial-lined tubes |
Alveolar glands | glands whose terminal portions from saclike dilations |
Merocrine glands | release fluids by exocytosis (without loss of cytoplasm) |
Apocrine glands | release small portions of their glandular cell bodies |
Holocrine glands | release entire cells |
The secretion of a serous cell is | watery and has a high concentration of enzymes |
The secretion of a mucous cell | mucus |