This article contains a list of glands of the human body
List of endocrine and exocrine glands # Name(s) Location Product Structure1 Apocrine sweat glands skin coiled tubular2 Anterior lingual glands tongue, near tip nonserous or mixed 3 Brunner's glands, duodenum mucous compound tubular4 Submucosal glands, lungs mucous 5 Bulbourethral glands, Cowper's glands, penis, basepre-ejaculatetubulo-alveolar6 Ceruminous glands ear cerumen7 Accessory lacrimal glands, Ciaccio's glands eye tears8 Ebner's glands tongue serous9 Eccrine sweat glands skin coiled tubular10 Esophageal glands esophagus mucous racemose11 Exocrine pancreas pancreas serous tubulo-acinar12 Gastric chief cell, stomach serous13 Glomus coccygeum, coccygeal gland, Luschka's gland or gangliona coccyx, near the tip14 Goblet cells digestive tract, respiratory tract mucous simple unicellular15 Henle's glands eyelids, in the conjunctiva tubular16 Krause's glands conjunctiva, middle portion mucous17 Lieberkuhn's glands intestines, surface of mucous membrane digestive enzymes simple tubular18 Littré's glands, Morgagni's glands spongy portion of the urethra mucous racemose19 Lumbar glands abdomen, near the back20 Mammary gland breast milk compound tubulo-acinar21 Meibomian gland eyelids sebaceous22 Moll's glands eyelids sebum23 Montgomery's glands mammary areola sebaceous24 Naboth's glands cervix and os uteri mucous25 Olfactory glands, Bowman's glands nose, olfactory region mucous26 Paneth cells small intestine serous27 Gley's glands, Sandstroem's glands, parathyroid gland in the neck parathyroid hormone28 Parietal cell stomach hydrochloric acid, intrinsic factor dynamic canaliculi29 Parotid gland mouth saliva tubulo-alveolar30 Peyer's patches (or glands) ileum, lymphatic glandsPineal glandbrainmelatonin31 Prostate surrounds the urethra just below the urinary bladdertubulo-alveolar32 Pyloric glands antrum of the pylorus, stomach mucous, gastrin simple branched tubular33 Sebaceous gland skin sebum acinar - branched34 Skene's gland, lesser vestibular gland, paraurethral gland vestibule of the vulva, around the lower end of the urethra serous tubulo-alveolar35 Sublingual gland, Rivini's gland mouth mucus (primarily) tubulo-alveolar36 Submandibular gland mouth mixed (M+S) tubulo-alveolar37 Sudoriparous glands, Boerhaave's glands skin38 Sigmund's glands epitrochlear lymph nodes of axilla39 Suzanne's gland mouth, beneath the alveolo-lingual groove mucous40 Tiedmann's glands, Bartholin's glands, vulvovaginal glands vulva, vagina 41 Tubarial glands posterior nasopharynx, over the torus tubarius saliva42 Uterine glands uterus histotroph (uterine milk)tubular43 Weber's glands tongue mucous tubular44 Glands of Zeis eyelids, free edges sebaceous
Skin 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 fromEccrine glands have no specialized variants. Anatomic location1 Ceruminous gland Apocrine Ear canal2 Mammary gland Apocrine Breast3 Moll's gland Apocrine Eyelid margin4 Tyson's gland Sebaceous Genital skin5 Meibomian gland Sebaceous Tarsal plate6 Gland of Zeis Sebaceous Associated with eyelashes on eyelid margin7 Montgomery gland Sebaceous Areola8 Fordyce spot Sebaceous Vermillion border
Endocrine glands See List of human endocrine organs and actions
References
Michael H. Ross & Wojciech Pawlina, Histology: A Text and Atlas