Meaning of sweat gland in English
(Definition of sweat gland from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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sweat gland
The secretion of salt and water by the eccrine sweat gland.
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The effect of age of heat-activated sweat gland density and flow during exercise in dry heat.
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The arousal and the eccrine sweat gland activity are clinically found to have direct relation.
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (e.g. some insecticides) also cause contraction of sweat gland smooth muscle leading to diaphoresis.
Secretion entails the movement of salt and water from sweat gland cells into the sweat duct.
The breast evolved from the sweat gland to produce milk, a nutritious secretion that is the most distinctive characteristic of mammals, along with live birth.
When tense, a person's sweat gland activity increases, which is measured by electrodermograph testing of the hands.
Aluminium-based complexes react with the electrolytes in the sweat to form a gel plug in the duct of the sweat gland.
These signs and symptoms are usually mild and include a few missing or abnormal teeth, sparse hair, and some problems with sweat gland function.
If the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system is highly aroused, then sweat gland activity also increases, which in turn increases skin conductance.
Clinical symptoms comprise trauma-induced skin fragility and ectodermal dysplasia affecting hair, nails and sweat glands.
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There are many theories on how mammary glands evolved, for example, it is believed that the mammary gland is a transformed sweat gland, more closely related to apocrine sweat glands.
The odor from sweat is due to bacterial activity on the secretions of the apocrine sweat glands, a distinctly different type of sweat gland found in human skin.
The skin's appendages (sweat glands, sebaceous glands and hair follicles) play an important role in ensuring normal skin function, including barrier protection, thermoregulation and sensory detection.
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It is a disorder of the mucus-secreting glands of the lungs, pancreas, mouth, gastro-intestinal tract and sweat glands of the skin.
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