tarsal gland

The tarsal gland appears to operate by a different mechanism than the other external scent glands.

The tarsal glands have a tuft of hair which is specially adapted to extract certain chemical compounds from the animal's urine.

"Elschnig's conjunctivitis": Conjunctivitis associated with hyperplasia of the tarsal gland.

They are located in the upper border of the tarsus, approximately in the middle between the extremities of the tarsal glands.

During rub-urination, the animal squats while urinating so that urine will run down the insides of its legs and onto its tarsal glands.

In the queen, it is an oily secretion of the queen's tarsal glands that is deposited on the comb as she walks across it.

Along the inner margin of the tarsus are modified sebaccous glands known as tarsal glands (or Meibonian glands).

In severe cases, dysfunction or inflammation of the Meibomian (Meibomianitis, an inflammation of the tarsal glands) glands may occur.

This compound does not originate in the tarsal gland itself, but rather it is extracted from the animal's urine by the tarsal hair tuft during the rub-urination process.

Throughout the year white-tailed deer will rub-urinate, a process during which a deer squats while urinating so that urine will run down the insides of the deer's legs, over the tarsal glands, and onto the hair covering these glands.

The meibomian glands (or tarsal glands) are a special kind of sebaceous gland at the rim of the eyelids inside the tarsal plate, responsible for the supply of meibum, an oily substance that prevents evaporation of the eye's tear film.