How glands work (oversimplified and overgeneralized)

Merocrine, Holocrine, and Apocrine secretion

Some note

Serous & mucous glands

Myoepithelial cells

Endocrine signaling (paracrine & autocrine)

Adipose tissue
#histology

Sensitivity:
The ability of a diagnostic method or test to correctly identify a diseased individual (with a certain disease)

Specificity:
The ability of a diagnostic method or test to correctly identify a healthy individual (disease-free, of a certain disease)

"rubor et tumor cum calore et dolore"

"redness and swelling, with heat and pain"

- Aulus Celsus, de medicina