enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Adenolipoma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenolipoma

    Adenolipomas are diagnosed by surgical resection and examining the tumor with a microscope. [5] The presence of eccrine sweat glands are used to distinguish the tumor from a common lipoma . Size and the development of the capsule (tissue surrounding the tumor) can also aid in diagnosis.

  3. Sweat gland - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_gland

    Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, from Latin sudor 'sweat', [6] [7] are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat. Sweat glands are a type of exocrine gland , which are glands that produce and secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct .

  4. Perspiration - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspiration

    The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body and are responsible for secreting the watery, brackish sweat most often triggered by excessive body temperature. Apocrine sweat glands are restricted to the armpits and a few other areas of the body and produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion which then gains its characteristic ...

  5. Want to sweat less? Here's what medical experts say. - AOL

    www.aol.com/want-sweat-less-heres-medical...

    We get it: There are times when you're in a social situation and the last thing you want to be doing is sweating.. Hyperhidrosis is the medical term for excessive sweating in the underarms, face ...

  6. Idiopathic pure sudomotor failure - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_pure_sudomotor...

    Intracutaneous injection of pilocarpine (sweat gland stimulant) is known to evoke no sweat response, indicating that lesions are on the post-synaptic side of the nerve-sweat gland junction. [1] The proposed pathomechanisms of idiopathic pure sudomotor failure include: A deficit within muscarinic cholinergic receptors of the eccrine sweat glands ...

  7. Skin secretions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_secretions

    sweat gland. Skin secretions are those substances and materials that are secreted by the skin and the external mucous membranes. Some skin secretions are associated with body hair. Skin secretions originate from glands that in dermal layer of the epidermis. Sweat, a physiological aid to body temperature regulation, is secreted by eccrine glands.

  8. Hypohidrosis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypohidrosis

    A thermoregulatory sweat test can evaluate the body’s response to a thermal stimulus by inducing sweating through a hot box (also called a hot room), a thermal blanket, or physical exercise. Failure of the topical indicator to undergo a colour change during thermoregulatory sweat testing indicates hypohidrosis, and further tests may be ...

  9. Compensatory hyperhidrosis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensatory_hyperhidrosis

    Compensatory hyperhidrosis; Following Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy surgery for axillary (armpit), palmar (palm) hyperhidrosis and blushing, the body may sweat excessively at untreated areas, most commonly the lower back and trunk, but can be spread over the total body surface below the level of the cut.