When you cry, there's a gland responsible for that. Which of the following glands in the human body is responsible for the production of tears?

The lachrymal glands come in a pair, and in the family of exocrine glands. They exist in almost all land-dwelling vertebrates and even in some marine animals. As described on Wikipedia: they "secrete the aqueous layer of the tear film," otherwise known as crying. In people, these glands are in the "upper lateral region of each orbit".

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