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Sweat carries excess heat out of your body and when the sweat evaporates it takes that excess heat with it cooling you off.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 13y agothe purpose for the production of sweat on the skin is to cool down the body when you overheat.
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∙ 13y agoSweating is your bodies way of cooling itself off.
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∙ 13y agoMainly for body temperature regulation.
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What organ produces sweat?
heart This is incorrect. Sweat is produced by sweat glands in the skin.
What is sweat secreted through?
Sweat is secreted through pores in the skin.
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 are waste products of the skin?
Mostly sweat, oil, and flakes of skin (dead skin cells). The sweat contains things like urea, electrolytes, sodium chloride, etc.
How do sweat glands reach the surface of the skin?
Because it removes waste material by doing sweating
Explain the various ways in which the skin can serve to regulate an organism's temperature?
The various ways in which skin can serve to regulate an organism's temperature would be through sweat and insulation. The skin excretes sweat on order to cool down the body and the skin also contains body heat by insulation.
Is skin on a plant?
Yes. However the anatomy of the epidermis of a plant is not the same as fauna skin, they do serve much the same purposes.
What else can you sweat for?
Sweating, also known as perspiration, is the production of fluids secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to the evaporation of water. Sweating is done to cool down the body's temperature.
What is the meaning of tattooing in animal production?
The meaning of tattooing in animal production refers to the staining of the skin with the indelible color. This is done for identification purposes.
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.
What organ produces sweat?
heart This is incorrect. Sweat is produced by sweat glands in the skin.
What is the difference between sweat duct and sweat gland?
sweat glands :are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat. sweat duct :a small duct that conveys sweat from a sudoriferous gland to the surface of the skin.
Where does the sweat originate?
Sweat glands are found in the skin.
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 has pores so sweat can escape your body?
The skin has more the 4 million pores. On another note, a section of skin about the size of a quarter has more that 600 sweat glands. Esthetician
What is sweat secreted through?
Sweat is secreted through pores in the skin.
What comes out in your skin?
sweat
