alveolar gland

Some sources draw a clear distinction between acinar and alveolar glands, based upon the size of the lumen.

If glands are categorized by shape, alveolar glands contrast with tubular glands.

Alveolar glands have a saclike secretory portion, thus are also termed saccular glands.

Toads possess two types of alveolar glands in epidermis of their skin: mucous and granular glands.

A further complication in the case of the alveolar glands may occur in the form of still smaller saccular diverticuli growing out from the main sacculi.

The term "racemose gland" is used to describe a "compound alveolar gland" or "compound acinar gland".

Venom is produced in the crural glands of the male, which are kidney-shaped alveolar glands connected by a thin-walled duct to a calcaneus spur on each hind limb.

"A mammary gland is composed of fifteen to twenty irregularly shaped lobes, each of which includes alveolar glands, and a duct (lactiferous duct) that leads to the nipple and opens to the outside.