eccrine gland

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Noun

eccrine gland (plural eccrine glands)

  1. A sweat gland of the human body.
    Coordinate term: apocrine gland
    • 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
      By contrast, eccrine glands, which secrete clear salty water and some other electrolytes, can be found all over our bodies and are much more numerous on us than on other primates.

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