GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A gland that makes substances such as sweat, tears, saliva, milk, and digestive juices, and releases them through a duct or opening to a body surface. Examples of exocrine glands include sweat glands, lacrimal glands, salivary glands, mammary glands, and digestive glands in the stomach, pancreas, and intestines.

Detailed explanation-2: -Exocrine glands are the glands of external secretion. These are those that secrete substances on the body surface through a duct. Salivary glands, mammary glands, sweat glands, are some of the exocrine glands.

Detailed explanation-3: -Salivary gland is an endocrine gland.

Detailed explanation-4: -The three types of exocrine glands include the apocrine, holocrine, and merocrine glands. The apocrine glands release a portion of their own cells with the substance they secrete. An example of an apocrine gland is the mammary gland, which secretes milk into the ducts of the breasts.

Detailed explanation-5: -Examples of exocrine glands include sweat, salivary, mammary, ceruminous, lacrimal, sebaceous, prostate and mucous. Exocrine glands are one of two types of glands in the human body, the other being endocrine glands, which secrete their products directly into the bloodstream.