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Armpit (axilla) and in the pigment skin areas around the genitals.
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What are the sweat glands that are found primarily in the skin of the axilla?
Both endocrine and apocrine sweat glands are found in the armpit. Apocrine sweat glands are found almost everywhere, while endocrine glands are found in the genetial region and the auxillary region.
Which sudoriferous glands are larger and are found in the axillae and around the genitals?
Apocrine (sweat glands are apocrine glands!/in axillary and genital areas)
What is the Gland found in underarm or groin?
apocrine (sweat) glands
What are the most common kind of sweat glands found in humans?
In humans, apocrine and merocrine sweat glands form the primary method of cooling.
Where are the most sweat glands?
Sweat glands are found in almost every part of the skin, forming tiny coiled tubes embedded in the dermis or subcutaneous fat. There are two types of sweat gland: eccrine glands and apocrine glands.
What are the similarities and differences between apocrine sweat glands and eccrine sweat glands?
Eccrine and apocrine sweat glands are both referred to as sudoriferous glands. The eccrine glands are found all over the body and function throughout your life. Apocrine glands develop during puberty and are most active throughout adulthood and are located in the armpits, areolar, genital, and anal areas. They are also the ones responsible for what we refer to as body odor. It is not the sweat that actually has to odor, but the bacteria that it attracts excretes its wastes as it digests the sweat. It is the bacteria's waste products that actually have the odor. So, you could say, you do not have body odor. Instead, you have bacteria odor.
Are sebaceous glands an example of aprocrine glands?
No. Apocrine glands are not sebaceous glands. They are specialized sweat glands.
What is most common and most numerous type of sweat glands is the gland.?
Eccrine glands are the most abundant sweat glands and they are also over your body and function throughout your lifetime.
What is true regarding apocrine sweat glands?
These glands produce a fluid that mixes with sebum.
What is an apocrine gland?
Apocrine sweat glands are inactive until they are stimulated by hormonal changes in puberty. Apocrine sweat glands are mainly thought to function as olfactory pheromones, chemicals important in attracting a potential mate. The stimulus for the secretion of apocrine sweat glands is adrenaline, which is a hormone carried in the blood.According to another suggestion, apocrine sweat glands were developed in the earliest period of human evolution via natural selection as a means of defence from predators as a warning signal, and that is why these glands are activated in the moments of emotional or physical stress.
Glands that respond to rising androgen levels are the?
Apocrine glands which are sweat or sudoriferous glands not sebaceous
What structure includes the types apocrine eccrine and sebaceous?
The glands of the skin, or the integumentary glands, include apocrine and eccrine sweat glands, and sebaceous glands that secrete sebum, or skin oil.
