Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to an eccrine gland or its secretion, especially sweat.
- adjective Exocrine.
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- adjective pertaining to a certain type of sweat
gland - adjective pertaining to
sweat - adjective
exocrine
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Antiperspirants generally include aluminum to block the ducts of eccrine glands, which produce sweat.
Out, Out, Pesky Sweat Stains Ray A. Smith 2011
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They are the apocrine, eccrine, and sebaceous glands.
Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001
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Our abundance of eccrine glands and relative lack of apocrine glands makes humans, in a word, weird.
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Dogs, for example, pant to regulate their body temperature, because their eccrine glands are limited mostly to the bottoms of their paws.
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Chimpanzees and gorillas have a mix of roughly 60 percent eccrine glands and 40 percent apocrine glands, the Wageningen researchers report.
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Along with that trait came naked skin and a large number of eccrine sweat glands, which produce moisture that removes body heat through evaporative cooling.
Scientific American 2010
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Along with that trait came naked skin and a large number of eccrine sweat glands, which produce moisture that removes body heat through evaporative cooling.
Scientific American 2010
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Along with that trait came naked skin and a large number of eccrine sweat glands, which produce moisture that removes body heat through evaporative cooling.
Scientific American 2010
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The most common type was apocrine-eccrine carcinoma, or cancer of the sweat glands.
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We examined sAC localization in normal human skin and found it to be present in keratinocytes, melanocytes, mononuclear cells, eccrine ducts, and nerves.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Jonathan H Zippin 2010
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