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  2. Sweat gland - Wikipedia

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    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. There are two main types of sweat glands that ...

  3. Eccrine sweat gland - Wikipedia

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    Eccrine sweat glands are found in virtually all skin, with the highest density in the palms of the hands, and soles of the feet, and on the head, but much less on the torso and the extremities. In other mammals, they are relatively sparse, being found mainly on hairless areas such as foot pads.

  4. Perspiration - Wikipedia

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    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

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    "Excessive sweating can (also) be due to overactive sweat glands," Kopelman adds. Genetics, stress and hormonal changes can impact how much you sweat, too. Certain medication you're taking could ...

  6. Adenolipoma - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Excretory system - Wikipedia

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    There are three parts to the eccrine sweat gland and these are the pore, the duct, and the gland. The pore is the portion that goes through the outermost layer of the skin and is typically 5-10 microns in diameter. The duct is the part of the sweat gland that connects dermis cells to the epidermis. It is composed by two layers of cells and is ...

  8. Why Sweat and Heat Make Your Skin So Sensitive - AOL

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    Here too, showers can help rinse away sweat and oil. Avoiding the worst of the heat by staying indoors in an air-conditioned environment can give your skin a break as well. Melasma

  9. Porocarcinoma - Wikipedia

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    Porocarcinoma (PCA) (also termed malignant poroma, eccrine porocarcinoma, and malignant eccrine poroma) [1] is a rare form of skin cancer that develops in eccrine sweat glands, i.e. the body's widely distributed major type of sweat glands, as opposed to the apocrine sweat glands which are located primarily in the armpits and perineal area. [2]