What are the adrenal glands?
The adrenal glands is called the adrenal glands (suprarenal glands). Gray's Anatomy (1918) describes it as a pair of small, roughly triangular endocrine glands.
What it is
- A pair of small, roughly triangular endocrine glands.
- Each has an outer cortex and an inner medulla.
- The cortex makes steroid hormones; the medulla makes adrenaline and noradrenaline.
Where it is
- Sit like caps on top of the two kidneys.
- In the back of the upper abdomen.
- Behind the peritoneum.
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