eccrine gland
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Noun edit
eccrine gland (plural eccrine glands)
- 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.
Further reading edit
eccrine sweat gland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
