exocrine gland

A gland that secretes products (excluding hormones and other chemical messengers) into ducts (duct glands) which lead directly into the external environment[WP]. Typical exocrine glands include sweat glands, salivary glands, mammary glands, stomach, liver, pancreas. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the exocrine gland is

A gland that secretes products (excluding hormones and other chemical messengers) into ducts (duct glands) which lead directly into the external environment[WP]. Typical exocrine glands include sweat glands, salivary glands, mammary glands, stomach, liver, pancreas. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the exocrine gland is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the exocrine gland connects to

The atlas records 28 typed relationships for it, across 6 kinds of connection. part of exocrine system.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the exocrine gland. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as ducted gland and glandula exocrina. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002365, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: exocrine system.
• A kind of: gland.
• subtype: apocrine gland, apocrine sweat gland, dorsal pancreas, eccrine sweat gland, gastric gland and gland of nasal mucosa, and 10 more.
• contains: duct, acinus of lacrimal gland, acinus of lactiferous gland, acinus of salivary gland, acinus of sebaceous gland and hepatic acinus, and 2 more.
• composed of: exocrine system.
• produces: secretion of exocrine gland.

Questions

Where is the exocrine gland?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the exocrine gland connect to?

Part of: exocrine system.

Is the exocrine gland the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.