ECCRINE GLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eccrine gland mean? 

• ECCRINE GLAND (noun)
  The noun ECCRINE GLAND has 1 sense:

1. a small sweat gland that produces only a fluid; restricted to the human skin

  Familiarity information: ECCRINE GLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECCRINE GLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small sweat gland that produces only a fluid; restricted to the human skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("eccrine gland" is a kind of...):

sudoriferous gland; sweat gland (any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration)

 Context examples 

A rare, congenital skin lesion consisting of a proliferation of eccrine glands with a vascular stroma.

(Eccrine Angiomatous Hamartoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Another type of gland (eccrine gland or simple sweat gland) produces most sweat.

(Apocrine gland, NCI Dictionary)

Clonal proliferations arising from adnexal skin structures including hair follicles, and apocrine and eccrine glands and ducts.

(Adnexal Neoplasms of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)