Tissue Growth

Tissue Growth

1. cell or organ that secretes substances for use elsewhere in the body or releases them for elimination from the body

2. Exocrine Glands

   • maintain their contact with the body surface through ways of epithelial tube ducts
   • Sweat
   • Mammary
   • Tear

3. Endocrine Glands

   • lose their contact with the surface of the body and do not have ducts

4. increasing the number of cells or the existing cells grow larger

5. Hyperplasia

   • cell multiplication

6. Hypertrophy

   • enlargement of preexisting cells
     • growth of muscles through exercise
     • fat accumulation

7. Neoplasia

   • development of tumor