eccrine gland

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   a small sweat gland that produces only a fluid; restricted to the human skin

   Broadersweat gland

Questions about eccrine gland

What does eccrine gland mean?

eccrine gland means "a small sweat gland that produces only a fluid; restricted to the human skin".

Is eccrine gland a common word?

eccrine gland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.