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Eccrine (sweat) glands.

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What type of gland is the sweat gland?

the merocrine


What is an exocrine gland that secretes products with no loss of cellular material?

merocrine


What type of exocrine gland uses exocytosis to secrete its product?

merocrine gland


What is the gland that secrete substances by exocytosis?

Exocrine Glands Typical exocrine glands include sweat glands, salivary glands, mammary glands, stomach, liver and the pancreas.


What type of exocrine gland that forms its secretory product and simply releases it from the cell by exocytosis called?

Merocrine Gland


What type of gland forms secretions which enter the extracellular fluid compartments?

the merocrine duct. and secretes in the "duct"


Multicellular exocrine glands that contain branching ducts are classified as?

Merocrine Glands


A sweat gland is an gland?

Sweat glands are usually either merocrine (most common) or apocrine (a specialized merocrine gland usually found around armpits that may be responsible for body odor and potentially human pheromones).


What type of sweat gland is involved in evaporative cooling?

Merocrine Sweat Gland (Merocrine secretion)Make up majority of bodies sweat glands Most concentrated in palms and solesCoiled tubular gland secretes watery fluid Sweat composed mainly of hypotonic sodium chlorideReleased directly onto skin surfaceInnervatation Cholinergic fibers of sympathetic nervous systemStimulation of sweatingExcessive body heatFear


What is most common and most numerous type of sweat glands is the gland.?

Eccrine glands are the most abundant sweat glands and they are also over your body and function throughout your lifetime.


Do merocrine glands produce their secretions by accumulating their secretions internally until the cell ruptures?

No, as far as I can tell from definition, and as far as rupturing the cell, because definition of Merocrine is: "of or relating to a gland whose secretory cells remain undamaged during secretion".


What is the type of secretion in which no cytoplasm is lost with the product?

Merocrine Glands release its product and no part of the gland is lost or damaged.