Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of those glands of the skin which secrete sweat.
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Examples
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For the groin, a new technique called a sweat-gland suction may be an option.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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For the groin, a new technique called a sweat-gland suction may be an option.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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Employing instruments to measure various functions, including blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat-gland activity, and muscle tension, you learn what is happening in your body and how to control it.
SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010
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Commercial trials are under way on Affectiva's skin conductance sensors, wristwatch-size devices that detect emotional engagement by measuring tiny changes in sweat-gland activity.
Computers That Read Your Emotions Jon Bruner 2010
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Employing instruments to measure various functions, including blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat-gland activity, and muscle tension, you learn what is happening in your body and how to control it.
SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010
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As we review the charts it turns out that when he'd asked me if I'd ever lied to make a story better and I said "no," my breathing, sweat-gland, and blood-pressure responses made me look like a combination of Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass.
Chaos Theory: 2005
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As we review the charts it turns out that when he'd asked me if I'd ever lied to make a story better and I said "no," my breathing, sweat-gland, and blood-pressure responses made me look like a combination of Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass.
Beat it... 2005
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Hebra * [407] mentions a young man in whom the blood spurted from the hand in a spiral jet corresponding to the direction of the duct of the sweat-gland.
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Hebra mentions a young man in whom the blood spurted from the hand in a spiral jet corresponding to the direction of the duct of the sweat-gland.
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A boil is an inflammatory formation having its starting point in a sebaceous-gland, sweat-gland, or hair-follicle.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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