What part of the skin releases sweat?

Answer 1

Sweat is used to cool off your body- whether that extra heat comes from hardworking muscles or from overstimulated nerves, your body will produce tiny droplets of water to cool off.

The average person has about 3 million sweat glands in the layer of skin called the dermis along with nerve endings and hair follicles.

Answer 2

To help us lose body heat. In a hot country or after vigorous exercise the body's temperature rises. Too much rise and you could die of heatstroke. So we perspire (well men perspire, ladies glow and animals sweat). This covers the skin in minute droplets of water which evaporate in the heat, absorbing latent heat of vapourisation from the body as it does. This cools us down. Latent heat of vapourisation is heat energy required for the molecules in a liquid to vibrate fast enough to escape from the confines of the liquid and become water vapour.

Answer 3

One reason is that persperation is the body's natural cooling system. When persperation evaporates off of the skin, it absorbs heat, thus helping (a little) the body to feel cooler. You have surely noticed that when you are swimming, as long as you are in the water you are fine. Depending on the temperature of the air, when you get out of the water you might feel very chilly while people who are around you are perfectly comfortable. That is because of the evaporation of the water on your skin; the water absorbs heat from your body in order to evaporate.

Answer 4

There are two secretory skin glands in mammals that are responsible for the release of sweat, the eccrine sweat gland and apocrine sweat gland.