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noun Anatomy.

one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.

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Origin of sweat gland

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby sweat gland

sweated, sweat equity, sweater, sweatercoat, sweater girl, sweat gland, sweat glands, sweathouse, sweating sickness, sweating system, sweat lodge

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How to use sweat gland in a sentence

To compensate, they have more sweat glands overall—which, interestingly, may be why studies have found that women have “a more even whole-body distribution of sweat than males during exercise.”
Why Women Might Need Different Hydration Advice|mmirhashem|October 11, 2021|Outside Online
Women tend to have smaller, less sensitive sweat glands with a lower maximal output than men’s glands.
Why Women Might Need Different Hydration Advice|mmirhashem|October 11, 2021|Outside Online
Meanwhile the salty stuff that flows when we exercise or are overheated emerges from a different, more abundant, kind of sweat gland—the eccrine gland.
What Your Body Odor Says About You|Sarah Everts|July 21, 2021|Time
Sadly, my wife and kids are not as enthusiastic about my shirtless lifestyle, so I’m constantly searching for workout tops that can handle the dual punch of my aggressive sweat glands and the jungle-like ecosystem I call home.
My Favorite Sweat-Wicking Workout Shirt for Hot Weather|Graham Averill|May 6, 2021|Outside Online

Hydrocystoma is a cystic affection of the sweat-gland ducts, seated upon the face.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
A boil is an inflammatory formation having its starting point in a sebaceous-gland, sweat-gland, or hair-follicle.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
During this time it is not buried in the skin but is able to retreat rapidly into it through a hair follicle or sweat gland.
Handbook of Medical Entomology|William Albert Riley
This principle holds good for every particle of sweat that reaches the mouth of a sweat gland.
A Practical Physiology|Albert F. Blaisdell
In this knot are a great many fine blood vessels, so that each sweat gland has an abundant blood supply.
Physiology|Ernest G. Martin

British Dictionary definitions for sweat gland

sweat gland

noun

any of the coiled tubular subcutaneous glands that secrete sweat by means of a duct that opens on to the skin

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for sweat gland

sweat gland

Any of the numerous small, tubular glands that are found in the skin of many mammals and that secrete sweat externally through pores to help regulate body temperature. In humans and some other mammals, sweat glands are distributed over most of the body surface.

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