ADJECTIVE
- (of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature
How To Use eccrine In A Sentence
- The biopsy specimen showed a cystic tumor arising from a dilated eccrine duct.
- Histologically, they have a central plate composed of immature elastic cartilage and are surrounded by adipose tissue, hair follicles, pilosebaceous units, and eccrine glands.
- The sweat from the apocrine glands is thicker than that produced by the eccrine glands.
- Physiological sweating from cutaneous eccrine glands maintains normothermia and skin hydration.
- Palmoplantar hyperhidrosis is a common condition in which the eccrine glands of the palms and soles secrete inappropriately large quantities of sweat.
- The human body contains two types of sweat glands - apocrine and eccrine.
- For example, tumors may show follicular, eccrine, sebaceous, or apocrine differentiation.
- The eccrine sudoriferous glands are distributed on the entire surface of the body with more abundance on palms, soles and on the forehead.
- Or maybe you should just consult a physician to get your eccrine and apocrine glands examined.
- A newly described variant of superficial lipoma, adenolipoma, is characterized by the presence of eccrine sweat glands in the fatty tumor; this type is often located on the proximal parts of the limbs.