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Sweat glands can produce sweat at the rate of one litre/ hour. After evaporation of sweat, the body is effectively cooled down. This happens in hot and dry climate, provided the air flow is there. (Hot and humid climate is not suitable for human residence. Though 100's of millions people live in such climate.) You have modified sweat glands called as apocrine glands present in armpits and few other places of body. They function as secondary sex character.
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Are there sweat glands on your palms?
No, they have sweat glands
Where are the sweat glands on the body located?
Well sudoriferous glands are sweat glands. They include the Eccrine sweat glands also known as the merocrine sweat glands, Apocrine sweat glands, Ceruminous glands and mammary glands.
What is a proper name for sweat glands?
You mean sweat glands? If so then sudoriferous glands.
Which cutaneous glands are concerned with cooling the body?
The sudoriferous glands, the exact name is eccrine sweat glands.
Does skin make sweat?
There are very fine and coiled tubular glands in the skin. They are called as sweat glands. In hot and humid tropical climate, the person can produce sweat at the rate of one litre per hour.
A saltwater solution is secreted by what glands?
sudoiferous glands
Are there sweat glands on your palms?
No, they have sweat glands
Did dinosaurs have sweat glands?
Only mammals have sweat glands. Dinosaurs were reptiles, so they did not have sweat glands.
How many sweat glands are in your feet?
There are 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of feet.
Where does the sweat originate?
Sweat glands are found in the skin.
Where are the sweat glands on the body located?
Well sudoriferous glands are sweat glands. They include the Eccrine sweat glands also known as the merocrine sweat glands, Apocrine sweat glands, Ceruminous glands and mammary glands.
What ids the difference between sweat glands and oil glands?
Sweat glands releases sweat and oil glands release oil, other wise they are both glands
Which sweat glands in dogs are the most important?
In the sweat glands.
What is a proper name for sweat glands?
You mean sweat glands? If so then sudoriferous glands.
What do sweat glands excrete?
Sweat glands excrete sweat ( which is mostly salt and water).
Which cutaneous glands are concerned with cooling the body?
The sudoriferous glands, the exact name is eccrine sweat glands.
In all mammals mammary glands are modified sweat or sebaceous glands?
sweat glands all do
