secretory organ

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secretory organ - any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstreamgland, secreter, secretorgreen gland - one of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near the base of the large antennaesericterium, serictery, silk gland - silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spidersorgan - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular functionduct gland, exocrine, exocrine gland - a gland that secretes externally through a ductductless gland, endocrine gland, endocrine - any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstreamacinus - one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland