L2.3: The Major Endocrine Organs

• THE MAJOR ENDOCRINE ORGANS

  ● These hormone-producing glands can have diffunctions:

  ○ Purely endocrine

  ○ Mixed: endocrine and exocrine
• THE MAJOR ENDOCRINE ORGANS

  ● Endocrine glands are DUCTLESS glands, releasing hormones directly into the blood or lymph

  ● Exocrine glands release their products at the body’s surface or into body cavities through ducts