Esophageal gland

Esophageal glands
File:Illu esophageal layers.jpg Layers of Esophageal Wall: 1. Mucosa 2. Submucosa 3. Muscularis 4. Adventitia 5. Striated muscle 6. Striated and smooth 7. Smooth muscle 8. Lamina muscularis mucosae 9. Esophageal glands
Section of the human esophagus. Moderately magnified. The section is transverse and from near the middle of the gullet. a. Fibrous covering. b. Divided fibers of longitudinal muscular coat. c. Transverse muscular fibers. d. Submucous or areolar layer. e. Muscularis mucosae. f. Mucous membrane, with vessels and part of a lymphoid nodule. g. Stratified epithelial lining. h. Mucous gland. i. Gland duct. m’. Striated muscular fibers cut across.
Details
Latin	glandulae oesophageae
Identifiers
Dorlands /Elsevier	g_06/12392509
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Anatomical terminology [[[d:|edit on Wikidata]]]

The esophageal glands are small compound racemose exocrine glands of the mucous type.

There are two types:

• Esophageal glands proper- located in the submucosa and secrete acid mucin for lubrication
• Esophageal cardiac glands- in the lamina propria and secrete neutral mucus that protects the esophagus from acidic gastric juices.

Each opens upon the surface by a long excretory duct.

References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

• Histology image: 49_07 at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
• Histology image: 10802loa – Histology Learning System at Boston University