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  2. Sweat gland - Wikipedia

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    Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, from Latin sudor ' sweat ', [6] [7] are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat. Sweat glands are a type of exocrine gland , which are glands that produce and secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct .

  3. Violet gland - Wikipedia

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    The violet gland or supracaudal gland is a gland located on the upper surface of the tail of certain mammals, including European badgers and canids such as foxes, wolves, [1] and the domestic dog, [2] as well as the domestic cat. [3] Like many other mammalian secretion glands, the violet gland consists of modified sweat glands and sebaceous glands.

  4. Dog anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Dogs have ear mobility that allows them to rapidly pinpoint the exact location of a sound. Eighteen or more muscles can tilt, rotate, raise, or lower a dog's ear. A dog can identify a sound's location much faster than a human can, as well as hear sounds at four times the distance. [41] Dogs can lose their hearing from age or an ear infection. [42]

  5. Apocrine sweat gland - Wikipedia

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    An apocrine sweat gland (/ ˈ æ p ə k r ə n,-ˌ k r aɪ n,-ˌ k r iː n /; from Greek apo 'away' and krinein 'to separate') [5] [6] is composed of a coiled secretory portion located at the junction of the dermis and subcutaneous fat, from which a straight portion inserts and secretes into the infundibular portion of the hair follicle. [7]

  6. Scent gland - Wikipedia

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    The even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) have many specialized skin glands, the secretions of which are involved in semiochemical communication. [2] These glands include the sudoriferous glands (located on the forehead, between the antlers and eyes), the preorbital glands (extending from the medial canthus of each eye), the nasal glands (located inside the nostrils), the interdigital glands ...

  7. Perspiration - Wikipedia

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    The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body and are responsible for secreting the watery, brackish sweat most often triggered by excessive body temperature. Apocrine sweat glands are restricted to the armpits and a few other areas of the body and produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion which then gains its characteristic ...

  8. Dog odor - Wikipedia

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    When these glands are active, they leave the nose and paw pads slightly moist and help these specialized skin features maintain their functional properties. [4] The odor associated with dog paw pads is much more noticeable on dogs with moist paw pads than on those with dry pads. Dogs also have numerous apocrine glands in their external ear canals.

  9. Tubular gland - Wikipedia

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    the gland is a uniform tube Small intestine (Crypts of Lieberkühn), uterine glands: coiled tubular or simple coiled tubular [5] the gland is coiled without losing its tubular form sweat glands: simple branched tubular [6] or compound tubular [7] branching occurs in the tubes pyloric glands of stomach