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

[From Greek ekkrīnein, to secrete : ek-, out; see ecto– + krīnein, to separate; see krei- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Ancient Greek ἐκκρίνω (ekkrīnō, "to separate")

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Examples

  • Antiperspirants generally include aluminum to block the ducts of eccrine glands, which produce sweat.

    Out, Out, Pesky Sweat Stains Ray A. Smith 2011

  • They are the apocrine, eccrine, and sebaceous glands.

    Brannon's Choice Browne, Richard W 2001

  • Our abundance of eccrine glands and relative lack of apocrine glands makes humans, in a word, weird.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Dogs, for example, pant to regulate their body temperature, because their eccrine glands are limited mostly to the bottoms of their paws.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Chimpanzees and gorillas have a mix of roughly 60 percent eccrine glands and 40 percent apocrine glands, the Wageningen researchers report.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The most common type was apocrine-eccrine carcinoma, or cancer of the sweat glands.

    RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

  • 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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