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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.

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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.


Name two different categories of skin secretion and the glands that manufacture them?

Two categories of skin secretion are sebum, produced by sebaceous glands, and sweat, produced by eccrine and apocrine glands. Sebum helps moisturize the skin and hair, while sweat helps regulate body temperature and excrete waste products.


What can be found in the dermis layer?

The dermis layer contains blood vessels, nerves, sweat glands, hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and collagen and elastin fibers. These components contribute to the skin's structure, sensation, and ability to regulate temperature.


What role do accessory organs such as sweat glands and sebaceous glands play in the skin?

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.


Why breast is called modified sweat gland?

It's a modified sweat gland. Milk is essentially modified sweat, which is produced by mammary glands. Sebaceous glands produce sebum, which is this oily substance designed to lubricate skin and hair. This prevents the cells from drying out.

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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.


In all mammals mammary glands are modified sweat or sebaceous glands?

sweat glands all do


Are sweat glands called sebaceous glands?

No, sweat glands and sebaceous glands are different structures in the body. Sweat glands produce sweat to regulate body temperature, while sebaceous glands produce oil (sebum) to moisturize the skin and hair.


What is another name for suderiferous glands and sebaceous glands?

Suderiferous glands are also known as sweat glands, while sebaceous glands are commonly referred to as oil glands.


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 accessory glands are associated with cutaneous membrane?

Accessory glands associated with the cutaneous membrane include sweat glands and sebaceous glands. Sweat glands produce sweat, which helps regulate body temperature, while sebaceous glands secrete sebum to lubricate and waterproof the skin.


What kind of sweat gland is associated with hair?

sebaceous glands


What is the sebaceous gland of the skin called?

Oil gland


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 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.