In addition, although sweat glands are distributed in various body parts, they are small and often attached to the skin surface, so that sweat produced from them easily evaporates. Sweat secretion rates can be lower than 10 nL min−1 cm−2 at low secretion sites such as an arm or ...
The average person has about 2 million sweat glands. Some people have as many as 4 million sweat glands. There are two kinds: eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine sweat glands are distributed just about everywhere on the body (ear canals, lips, and genitals are the exceptions). The sweat they sec...
While eccrine sweat glands are distributed throughout the body, apocrine sweat glands are characteristic for certain body areas including the genitalia, nipple, and armpit and become fully functional at puberty. Modified apocrine sweat glands are also located in the eyelid (gland of Moll) and in ...
These glands are classified according to their morphological, functional and developmental characteristics into two types: eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine glands are the widely distributed throughout the body, being more abundant in some areas such as hands, feet, face and chest. The apocrine glands ...
There are two to four million sweat glands distributed all over our bodies. The majority of sweat glands are eccrine sweat glands, which are found in large numbers in the armpits, cheeks, forehead, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. ...
Why do some people sweat more in certain areas than others? Much has to do with your DNA (or predisposition to sweating) and how your sweat glands are distributed. The placement of specific sweat glands also shapes how you sweat. If you sweat excessively in one particular area, you could...
sweat glandone of the glands that secretesweat, found in the corium or subcutaneous tissue, and opening by a duct on the surface of the body. There are two types: The ordinary oreccrinesweat glands are unbranched, coiled, tubular glands distributed over almost all of the body surface; they...
Sweat glands are classified into three main types: eccrine, apocrine, and apoeccrine (Sato1993; Sato et al.1989). Eccrine sweat glands will be the focus of this review because they are the most numerous (2–4 million), distributed across most of the body surface area (Sato1983,1993) and...
making blood sample acquisition relatively simple59. In contrast, sweat is produced only under appropriate environmental conditions. In addition, although sweat glands are distributed in various body parts, they are small and often attached to the skin surface, so that sweat produced from them easily...
The sweat glands that are found in both thin and thick skin are mostly of the eccrine type. The apocrine sweat glands are found in areas such as the axillae (arm pits), eyelids and nostrils. The human sweat duct becomes a helix in the epidermis, with a right-handed preference. The radi...