BIOLOGY Volume 1 - A Guide to General Biology - 2004

6. HISTOLOGY

6.3. Animal Epithelial Tissue

6.3.3. Glandular Epithelium

Among epithelial Cells, there may be individual secretory cells, such as goblet cells, or clusters of secretory cells that form a multicellular gland. An epithelium containing numerous goblet cells is referred to as mucous epithelium.



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