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eccrine sweat gland

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000423


A merocrine, unbranched, unbranched, coiled, tubular gland sweat gland. In humans, distributed over almost all of the body surface, and promote cooling by evaporation of their secretion. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eccrine_sweat_gland ]

Synonyms: glandula sudorifera eccrina, glandula sudorifera merocrina

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pheno_slim, organ_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000008

in mice, found only on footpads; in humans, entire body including soles and palms

has related synonym

merocrine sweat gland, eccrine gland

id

UBERON:0000423

prefLabel

Eccrine sweat gland

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606