Digestive glands
The digestive glands associated with the alimentary canal include the salivary glands the liver and the pancreas.
Saliva is the mainly produced by three pair of salivary glands. the parotids. the largest gland of the body weighting an adult human.It is stimulated abdominal cavity.The hepatic lobules are the structural and functional unit of liver containing hepatic cell arranged the form of the cords.Each lobule is covered with a connective tissue sheath called the glisson capsule.The duct of gall bladder along with hepatic duct form the liver.
The bile duct and the pancreatic duct open together in to duodenum as the common hepato-pancreatic duct which has guarded by a sphincter called sphincter of Oddi.
the pancreas is a compound elongated organ situated between the limbs U shaped dueodenum.
Digestive glands
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