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Tissues > Exocrine Glands > Sweat Glands
Integumentary System > Skin > Sweat Glands

Preferred term

Sweat Glands  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • SWEAT and SWEATING are also available; inflammation = HIDRADENITIS

Scope note

  • Sweat-producing structures that are embedded in the DERMIS. Each gland consists of a single tube, a coiled body, and a superficial duct.

In other languages

  • hikirauhaset

    Finnish

  • ekkriininen hikirauhanen
  • ekkriiniset hikirauhaset
  • glandula sudorifera
  • glandulae sudoriferae
  • hikirauhanen
  • Svettkörtlar

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013545

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