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SUDORIFEROUS GLAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sudoriferous gland mean?
• SUDORIFEROUS GLAND (noun)
The noun SUDORIFEROUS GLAND has 1 sense:
1. any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration
Familiarity information: SUDORIFEROUS GLAND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
sudoriferous gland; sweat gland
Hypernyms ("sudoriferous gland" is a kind of...):
duct gland; exocrine; exocrine gland (a gland that secretes externally through a duct)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sudoriferous gland"):
apocrine gland (a large sweat gland that produces both a fluid and an apocrine secretion; in human beings located in hairy regions of the body)
eccrine gland (a small sweat gland that produces only a fluid; restricted to the human skin)
Holonyms ("sudoriferous gland" is a part of...):
cutis; skin; tegument (a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch)
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