GENERAL ANATOMY
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
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Lacrimal
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Pituitary
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Detailed explanation-1: -Endocrine glands and exocrine glands are two types of glands in the human body based on presence or absence of ducts. Exocrine glands include sweat, salivary, mammary, ceruminous, lacrimal, sebaceous, and mucous glands.
Detailed explanation-2: -The endocrine glands in the human body are hypothalamus, testes, ovary, pancreas, thyroid, pituitary, pineal, parathyroid, thymus and adrenal gland. The liver does not secrete any hormone.
Detailed explanation-3: -The lacrimal gland is an exocrine gland similar to the mammary gland and salivary gland [7].
Detailed explanation-4: -The lacrimal gland (tear gland) is an exocrine gland located above the eyeball, in the anterior part of the upper outer aspect of each orbit. It secretes lacrimal fluid (tear fluid), a watery fluid isotonic to plasma, onto the surface of the eyeball.