Definition of eccrine in English:
eccrine
adjective ˈɛkrɪnˈɛkrʌɪnˈekˌrēn
Medicine Relating to or denoting multicellular glands which do not lose cytoplasm in their secretions, especially the sweat glands.
Compare with apocrine
Example sentencesExamples
- Histologically, they have a central plate composed of immature elastic cartilage and are surrounded by adipose tissue, hair follicles, pilosebaceous units, and eccrine glands.
- A newly described variant of superficial lipoma, adenolipoma, is characterized by the presence of eccrine sweat glands in the fatty tumor; this type is often located on the proximal parts of the limbs.
- Physiological sweating from cutaneous eccrine glands maintains normothermia and skin hydration.
- The sweat from the apocrine glands is thicker than that produced by the eccrine glands.
- Palmoplantar hyperhidrosis is a common condition in which the eccrine glands of the palms and soles secrete inappropriately large quantities of sweat.
Origin
1930s: from Greek ekkrinein 'secrete', from ek- 'out' + krinein 'sift, separate'.