sudorifus glands (sweat) is the only sweat gland but there is a sebacious gland (oil)
Eccrine glands are the most abundant sweat glands and they are also over your body and function throughout your lifetime.
The type of gland that opens into hair follicles and secretes sweat after puberty is called the apocrine gland. These glands are found predominantly in the armpits and pubic region and produce a thicker, more odorous sweat compared to the eccrine sweat glands found throughout the body. Apocrine glands are influenced by hormonal changes that occur during puberty, leading to increased sweating and body odor.
The main purpose of a sweat gland is to cool the body.
sweat gland
The sebaceous glands and sweat glands secretes their secretions on the surface. That is on the skin. Technically the glands of the intestine also secrete their secretions on the surface. The intestinal cavity is never 'inside' your body. It is out side your body.
The sweat gland produce sweat. The sweat pore provides a portal of exit for the body wastes excreted in the sweat. Sweat also helps to cool the body down.
The sweat gland duct transports sweat from the sweat gland to the skin's surface. It helps regulate body temperature by releasing sweat, which evaporates and cools the body.
The sweat pore is were the sweat from the sweat gland is released. The main function of sweat is temperature regulation (thermoregulation).
There are several names: sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, eccrine, and apocrine gland. The eccrine is found all over the body while the apocrine gland is found with hair follicles.
The sweat glands control body temperature.
Merocrine Sweat Gland (Merocrine secretion)Make up majority of bodies sweat glands Most concentrated in palms and solesCoiled tubular gland secretes watery fluid Sweat composed mainly of hypotonic sodium chlorideReleased directly onto skin surfaceInnervatation Cholinergic fibers of sympathetic nervous systemStimulation of sweatingExcessive body heatFear
to cool the body down