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Slide 92
This specimen represents skin from the axillary (armpit), genital, or peri-anal area. In each of these sites, in addition to ordinary "eccrine" sweat glands there are also "apocrine" sweat glands. Both types occur on this slide. The tubules of eccrine sweat glands are small; the diameter of their lumens is similar to the thickness of their epithelium. The tubules of the apocrine sweat glands are much larger, with conspicuous open lumens.
Week 3 -- Look for connective tissue -- fibrous dermis beneath the epidermis, interspersed among sweat glands.
Week 2 -- Find stratified squamous epithelium (on surface), cuboidal epithelium (sweat glands).
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