Multiple choice

Which of the following are external glands?

  1. Brunner's glands

  2. Crypts of Lieberkuhn

  3. Parotid salivary glands

  4. Gastric glands
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Explanation

Parotid salivary glands are present below and front of each ear and secrete their secretion via ducts in buccal cavity, i.e. they are exocrine glands. As they are outside buccal cavity, thus they are called external glands.

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