Primary hyperaldosteronism are conditions in which the adrenal gland releases too much of the hormone aldosterone.

In humans, when blood calcium level rises above a set point, the thyroid gland releases calcitonin, causing the blood calcium level to fall.

This gland releases various hormones that play significant roles in regulating homeostasis.

When you are under stress your adrenal glands produce more cortisol, the stress hormone.

Your salivary glands produce your spit, which travels through narrow tubes into your mouth - more so when you're eating.

The sebaceous glands produce the grease we all have on our skin.

However, they have large fangs, and their glands produce a considerable quantity of toxic venom.

The scent glands produce a secretion that repels predators.

The apocrine sweat glands secrete the complex organic chemicals that give an individual their distinctive smell.

However, before that disappearance, some glands secrete unequally much.

In the pharynx, the pharyngeal glands secrete mucus.

In the oral cavity, salivary glands secrete an array of enzymes and substances that aid in digestion and also disinfection.

Typically, glands secrete tears for lubrication of the cornea.

He had his saliva glands removed in 2011.

He said that if done repeatedly the challenge could irreparably damage saliva glands, nerves and facial muscles, resulting in asymmetry.

These names used to stimulate the saliva glands of a generation.

It gets the saliva glands working and makes your mouth water, which carries the flavour of the fish and potatoes to your tastebuds.

On her third visit she insisted on being sent to hospital - where a scan found a rare tonsil cancer had spread to her saliva glands and neck lymph nodes.

Other clues include swollen glands, a temperature and a sore tongue.

Sometimes the swollen glands lead to secondary problems, such as swelling of the leg or blood clots (deep vein thrombosis).

But if you have a fever, swollen glands in your neck, pus over your tonsils and there's no cough, it could be tonsillitis.

It leads to a fever lasting more than five days, swollen and red hands, peeling lips, a rash, conjunctivitis and swollen glands.

Clues are pusspots on your tonsils, swollen glands, a fever and no cough.

This sends messages via nerves linked to tear glands (1) in the upper eyelids.

Each blink brings liquid secreted by the tear glands into contact with the surface of the eyeball.

Sometimes the tear glands in the eyes are also affected, resulting in dry eyes.

Some medical conditions — from severe conjunctivitis to tumours of the tear glands — can have you weeping blood.

He also described the accessory tear glands of the eye.

Doctors said she had thymoma, a tumour affecting the thymus gland that helps the body fight infection.

Carnivores could enjoy a snail hidden like a lump of gristle in a rabbit mousse, and lambs' sweetbreads in a wonton parcel - which tasted like partially cooked thymus gland.

By 1964 it had been demonstrated that regulatory factors extracted from the thymus gland could prevent many of the manifestations of wasting disease.

The treatment of malignant tumors of the thymus gland by radium.

The transcervical approach, a less invasive procedure, allows for removal of the entire thymus gland through a small neck incision.

Why might researchers want to create artificial venom glands, you ask?

You merely stroke it under its chin to initiate a defensive response, and it starts secreting the stuff from its venom glands, which can then be collected and dried.

None of the known species have venom glands or fangs, instead having chelicerae.

The venom glands of this species are exceptionally long and extend beyond the jaw for one-third the length of the body.

On the first dorsal fin, both of the spines, and those of the gill covers, have venom glands attached to them.