eccrine
Adjective
Meaning
(of exocrine glands) producing a clear aqueous secretion without releasing part of the secreting cell; important in regulating body temperature
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Potential skin irritants can reach viable tissue through three routes, via: hair follicles, with their sebaceous glands; eccrine sweat ducts; or across the SC.
Eccrine sweat glands, which are found in most skin across the body, produce sweat to cool the body.
There is a trend in primates to have increased eccrine sweat glands over the general surface of the body.
The rise in eccrine glands occurred on the genes that determine the fate of epidermal stem cells in human embryonic development.
In addition to eccrine sweat glands, apocrine glands are the other type of sweat gland.