eccrine sweat gland in dogs

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. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the eccrine sweat gland is

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. The atlas records it as a gland at the organ scale in the dog.

Where the eccrine sweat gland is

It sits within the integumentary system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the eccrine sweat gland connects to

The atlas records 3 typed relationships for it, across 2 kinds of connection. part of skin epidermis.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the eccrine sweat gland. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as glandula sudorifera eccrina, glandula sudorifera merocrina, eccrine gland and merocrine sweat gland. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000423, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: skin epidermis.
• A kind of: merocrine gland and sweat gland.

Questions

Where is the eccrine sweat gland?

It sits within the integumentary system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the eccrine sweat gland connect to?

Part of: skin epidermis.

Is the eccrine sweat gland the same in other species?

This page describes the dog. The human record of the same structure sits beside it on /compare, over one shared model rather than two atlases built separately.