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CIACCIO'S GLANDS
Little, compound, branched, tubular glands situated in the mediumpart of the lid (Wolfring's glands, 1872, or Ciaccio's glands, 1874) and along the superior and inferiorfornices of the conjunctivalsac (Krause's glands, 1854). These accessory glands are justscattered scraps of lacrimalgland tissue; all of them manufacture the samekind of tears and debouch on to the conjunctival surface. Henle's and Baumgarten's "glands" are in fact not glands at all, but mere epithelial invaginations.
Synonym: glandulae lacrimales accessoriae.