Minor gland

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The Moll glands (also Moll's glands , conjunctival glandulae or eyelash glands ) are modified, apocrine sweat glands that open into the hair follicles of the eyelashes at the edge of the eyelid and are innervated by the ciliary ganglion . The first person to describe it was the ophthalmologist Jakob Antonius Moll (1832–1914).

An inflammation of these structures - but also those of the Zeis glands - is a stye ( hordeolum externum called).

literature

  • Theodor Axenfeld (founder), Hans Pau (ed.): Textbook and atlas of ophthalmology. With the collaboration of Rudolf Sachsenweger and others 12th, completely revised edition. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart et al. 1980, ISBN 3-437-00255-4 .
  • Pschyrembel clinical dictionary. With clinical syndromes and nouns anatomica. = Clinical Dictionary. Edited by the publisher's dictionary editor under the direction of Christoph Zink. 256th, revised edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1990, ISBN 3-11-010881-X .