adjective
- relating to or denoting sweat glands that produce watery sweat and are distributed over most of the body surface
Usage: medical/anatomical term; contrasts with apocrine glands
Examples
- Eccrine sweat glands help regulate body temperature through perspiration.
- The eccrine glands are the most numerous type of sweat gland in humans.
- Eccrine secretions are primarily composed of water, salt, and trace amounts of other compounds.
- Unlike apocrine glands, eccrine glands become active during childhood.
- Eccrine sweat plays an important role in thermoregulation during exercise.