Usually means: Produces sweat, regulates body temperature.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word sweat gland:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweat gland: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sweat gland: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweat gland: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sweat gland: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sweat gland: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sweat gland: Vocabulary.com
  7. sweat-gland: Wordnik
  8. sweat gland: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sweat gland: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. sweat gland: Wiktionary
  11. sweat gland: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sweat gland: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sweat gland: Dictionary.com
  14. Sweat gland: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. sweat gland: Rhymezone
  16. sweat gland: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sweat gland: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sweat gland: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweat gland: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweat gland: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Gland, sweat, Sweat gland: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. sweat gland: Medical dictionary
  6. Gland, sweat, Sweat gland: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sweat gland)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) An exocrine gland found under the skin in mammals for regulating body temperature.

Similar:
sudoriferous gland, anal gland, hibernating gland, thermoregulator, ectotherm, skin, mammal, gigantotherm, parotoid gland, animal, more...

Opposite:
sebaceous gland, oil gland

Types:
eccrine, apocrine, more...

Phrases:
Eccrine sweat gland, Apocrine sweat gland, sweat gland diseases, sweat gland carcinoma, atrichial sweat gland, more...

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Similar:
sudoriferous gland, anal gland, hibernating gland, thermoregulator, ectotherm, skin, mammal, gigantotherm, parotoid gland, animal, more...

Opposite:
sebaceous gland, oil gland

Types:
eccrine, apocrine, more...

Phrases:
Eccrine sweat gland, Apocrine sweat gland, sweat gland diseases, sweat gland carcinoma, atrichial sweat gland, paratrichial sweat gland, sweat gland adenoma, more...



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