sweat gland
one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
Origin of sweat gland
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How to use sweat gland in a sentence
Hydrocystoma is a cystic affection of the sweat-gland ducts, seated upon the face.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonA boil is an inflammatory formation having its starting point in a sebaceous-gland, sweat-gland, or hair-follicle.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonDuring this time it is not buried in the skin but is able to retreat rapidly into it through a hair follicle or sweat gland.
Handbook of Medical Entomology | William Albert RileyThis principle holds good for every particle of sweat that reaches the mouth of a sweat gland.
A Practical Physiology | Albert F. BlaisdellIn this knot are a great many fine blood vessels, so that each sweat gland has an abundant blood supply.
Physiology | Ernest G. Martin
British Dictionary definitions for sweat gland
any of the coiled tubular subcutaneous glands that secrete sweat by means of a duct that opens on to the skin
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Scientific definitions for sweat gland
Any of the numerous small, tubular glands that are found in the skin of many mammals and that secrete sweat externally through pores to help regulate body temperature. In humans and some other mammals, sweat glands are distributed over most of the body surface.
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