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  2. Skin appendage - Wikipedia

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    If acne is occurring, it is because these gland ducts are blocked. Eccrine (merocrine) glands are most common. The secretions are very watery that contain some electrolytes; Apocrine glands produce a fatty secretion, thus giving away an odorous smell. These are located in the inguinal and axillary regions of the body, and include the mammary ...

  3. 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. There are two main types of sweat glands that ...

  4. Lacrimal caruncle - Wikipedia

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    As with all oil glands, lacrimal caruncles can become clogged, causing a pimple, whitehead, or pustule beneath the skin. Clogged oil and sweat glands in the caruncle can affect tear ducts. Treatment for dry eyes due to clogged glands includes refraining from rubbing the eyes and rinsing the eyes with clear water frequently during the day ...

  5. Merocrine - Wikipedia

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    Merocrine is the most common manner of secretion. The gland releases its product and no part of the gland is lost or damaged (compare holocrine and apocrine). The term eccrine is specifically used to designate merocrine secretions from sweat glands (eccrine sweat glands), [1] although the term merocrine is often used interchangeably. [2] [3]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Eccrine sweat gland - Wikipedia

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    Initially, within the eccrine glands, sweat has a high concentration of Na + ions. The Na + ions are re-absorbed into the tissue via the epithelial sodium channels (ENaCs) that are located on the apical membrane of the cells that form the eccrine gland ducts (see Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 of the reference). [9]

  8. 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

  9. Ceruminous gland - Wikipedia

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    Ceruminous glands are simple, coiled, tubular glands made up of an inner secretory layer of cells and an outer myoepithelial layer of cells. [1] They are classed as apocrine glands. The glands drain into larger ducts, which then drain into the guard hairs that reside in the external auditory canal. [2]