外分泌

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 外分泌, read がいぶんぴつ, is the biological term exocrine secretion.
• Basic usage: It is used when materials or lectures explain a type of secretion.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Two terms being compared
  • In the example, 外分泌と内分泌の違い means the difference between exocrine and endocrine secretion.
  • と connects the two nouns being compared.
• What is explained
  • 外分泌の仕組み refers to how exocrine secretion works.
  • The example's 説明された is passive: that process was explained.