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SWEAT GLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration
Synonyms:
sudoriferous gland; sweat gland
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sweat gland" is a kind of...):
duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweat gland"):
apocrine gland (a large sweat gland that produces both a fluid and an apocrine secretion; in human beings located in hairy regions of the body)
eccrine gland (a small sweat gland that produces only a fluid; restricted to the human skin)
Holonyms ("sweat gland" is a part of...):
cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
Context examples:
A rare, benign, slow-growing and painless neoplasm of sweat glands.
(Mixed Tumor of the Skin (Chondroid Syringoma), NCI Thesaurus)
It increases the amount of saliva and sweat made by saliva and sweat glands.
(Cevimeline hydrochloride, NCI Dictionary)
A small (one mm or less) vesicular, papular or pustular monomorphous rash, which is associated with heat, fever or occlusion of sweat glands.
(Miliaria, NCI Thesaurus)
A hamartoma characterized by localized eccrine sweat gland malformation.
(Eccrine Sweat Gland Hamartoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A low grade adenocarcinoma with ductal differentiation, arising from the sweat glands.
(Microcystic Adnexal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
An adenocarcinoma with eccrine differentiation arising from the sweat glands.
(Eccrine Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A carcinoma with eccrine differentiation arising from the sweat glands.
(Eccrine Porocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A very rare, benign sweat gland neoplasm that affects the breast.
(Benign Breast Eccrine Spiradenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Apocrine glands in the skin and eyelid are sweat glands.
(Apocrine gland, NCI Dictionary)
A cystic form of sweat gland adenoma (ADENOMA, SWEAT GLAND).
(Apocrine Hidrocystoma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
