What Are Eccrine Glands?
Eccrine glands are one of the three kinds of sweat glands present in the skin, along with apocrine and sebaceous glands. Human skin contains between two and three million eccrine glands, mostly on the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, and the armpits. Eccrine glands are seen as being a uniquely human structure in that they occur among other primates with only half the frequency as among humans. In non-primate animals, they are either confined to the pads of the feet and lip margins, or are entirely absent.
