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to secrete sweat and oil

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Q: What is the function of the excretory glands in the skin?
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What are the excretory organs in skin?

sweat glands


What the relationship between the skin and the excretory system?

Not much, exept for the fact that sweat is part of the excretory system, and you sweat from glands in your skin


What does the skin wastes the excretory system?

Your skin is apart of the excretory system because your skin contains sweat glands which is one of the ways to release a type of waste which is basically what the excretory system is all about.


What system does skin belong to in the body?

Lots of things. Basically, the integumentary system includes your skin (the epidermis and the dermis) and all of the glands that like in your skin (sebacous glands, apocrine glands, sweat glands, hair follicles).


What are the three excretory organs in man and their function?

lungs kidney skin


What are the functions of of the skin glands?

Sebaceous glands secrete oil to protect the skin. Sweat glands secrete watery perspiration to excrete wastes and cool the body.


Why is the skin also considered to be part of the excretory?

One reason is because when you get hot, your body opens the sweat glands and sweat is released from the skin.


What is the largest excretory organ of human body?

The intestines, small and large. The skin is the largest organ but its function is not predominantly excretory.


What is the function of the glands of the skin?

the sweat glands of the skin rid of sweat as waste product 2nd answer: The sweat glands excrete water onto the skin to help keep you cool.


What organ systems function as waste removal?

Excretory, circulatory, whatever skin is


What glands of the skin respond to emotional stress and begin to function at puberty?

sweat glands


What are the glands of the excretory system?

All I know, is that it is the spleen, and sweat glands....:)