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What role do accessory organs such as sweat glands and sebaceous glands play in the skin?
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∙ 11y ago
glands are not organs. Sebaceuos glands remove fat from body and only activate during pubirty these glands also remove toxins and cool the bosy off. Sweat glands secrete toxins through sweat and cool body as well these are activated in the body after birth these do not stink because there is no fat in the sweat.
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How are sebaceous glands and sweat glands similar?
sweat glands secrete sweat (H20, ammonia, urea, salt) onto skin surface. Function: cooling+ evaporation and removal of wastes Sebaceous gland (oil glands) secrete oil onto hair and skin. Function: prevents drying and protects against bacteria.
Sebaceous glands develop along the walls of hair follicles and produce?
sweat
What can be found in the dermis layer?
capillaries, adipose, hair follicle, sweat glands and sebaceous glands
What are 3 examples of exocrine glands?
Exocrine glands are glands that secrete their products to the outside of the body. Examples include sweat glands, which secrete a hypotonic salt solution to the surface of the skin; portions of the pancreas, which secrete pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes and bicarbonate into the small intestine; and salivary glands, which secrete saliva into the mouth.
What has a secretion that contains cell fragments?
Sebaceous glands secretion contains cell fragments. Sweat gland apocrine produce a secretion containing proteins and fats in addition to water and salts.
What are the accessory organs of the integumentary system?
The skin is part of the integumentary system. Its four accessory organs include the hair follicles, sebaceous glands, sweat glands and the nails.Anything that does not include the blood vessels (that supply nutrition to the skin), sweat glands, sebacious glands, adipose, cartilaginious fibers even. and others inside the dermis (it is FULL of accessory items).
What other organs are with the Skin?
Skin contains sweat glands and sebaceous glands and hair follicles.
Are the sweat and sebaceous glands in the stratum corneum?
The sweat and sebaceous glands are in the dermis, not in the stratum corneum.
Are sebaceous glands an example of aprocrine glands?
No. Apocrine glands are not sebaceous glands. They are specialized sweat glands.
Glands that respond to rising androgen levels are the?
Apocrine glands which are sweat or sudoriferous glands not sebaceous
In all mammals mammary glands are modified sweat or sebaceous glands?
sweat glands all do
What layer of the skin that contains sweat glands sebaceous glands and and hair follicles?
The integumentary system contains sebaceous glands.
Blackheads can result from a blockage of which of the following glands?
sebaceous sweat glands
What is another name for suderiferous glands and sebaceous glands?
sweat and oil glands, respectively
What specific types of skin glands are the most numerous?
eccrine sweat glands
What kind of sweat gland is associated with hair?
sebaceous glands
What is the sebaceous gland of the skin called?
Oil gland
