Term Name: eccrine sweat gland
Synonyms: eccrine gland, glandula sudorifera eccrina, glandula sudorifera merocrina, merocrine sweat gland
Definition: A merocrine, unbranched, unbranched, coiled, tubular gland sweat gland. In humans, distributed over almost all of the body surface, and promote cooling by evaporation of their secretion.
Ontology: Cell Ontology [UBERON:0000423]

Relationships
is part of: skin epidermis
has parts: clear cell of eccrine sweat gland dark cell of eccrine sweat gland duct of eccrine sweat gland
is a type of: merocrine gland sweat gland
has subtype: palmar/plantar sweat gland
inverse disjoint_from: apocrine sweat gland