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Animal Structures > Scent Glands

Preferred term

Scent Glands  

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Note

  • animal only; includes skunk perianal glands, weasel anal glands, fox musk glands, wood rat ventral glands, peccary dorsal glands

Scope note

  • Exocrine glands in animals which secrete scents which either repel or attract other animals, e.g. perianal glands of skunks, anal glands of weasels, musk glands of foxes, ventral glands of wood rats, and dorsal glands of peccaries.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under EXOCRINE GLANDS 1975-90

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