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Merocrine Sweat Gland (Merocrine secretion)
- Make up majority of bodies sweat glands
- Most concentrated in palms and soles
- Coiled tubular gland secretes watery fluid
- Sweat composed mainly of hypotonic sodium chloride
- Released directly onto skin surface
- Innervatation
- Cholinergic fibers of sympathetic nervous system
- Stimulation of sweating
- Excessive body heat
- Fear
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What cools the body by giving off sweat or perspiration?
evaporative cooling
Sweating cools the body by what?
The cooling happens due to the sweat evaporating away from the skin.
How does your body maintain heat homeostasis by using perspiration?
Perspiration cools the body through evaporative cooling. As the sweat is turned to a vapor (drying from the skin) heat is absorbed from the body. http://www.answers.com/evaporative+cooling
Explain How evaporative cooling leads to a reduction in body temperature?
Evaporative cooling in mammals is essentially done by through, using body heat to heat up the sweat (moisture to gas) and once the sweat evaporates, the heat taken away with it.
Which cutaneous glands are concerned with cooling the body?
The sudoriferous glands, the exact name is eccrine sweat glands.
What part of the skin do you think is involved in the excretory system?
sweat gland
What is the gland that produces sweat cells?
Sweat Gland
What sweat gland produce stinky sweat?
Its not nescessarily a gland in particular, but the bacteria that love the sweat cause the sweat to smell.
Infected sweat gland?
It's when your sweat gland gets infected.
What is most common and most numerous type of sweat glands is the gland.?
Eccrine glands are the most abundant sweat glands and they are also over your body and function throughout your lifetime.
How does sweat cool the body?
sweat take heat to the skin where it is evaporated and takes the heat with it.
What causes sweat under your arms?
One of the appendages of the skin is the cuteneous gland. it has two categories which are the sudoriferous(sweat) gland and sebaceous(oil) gland. the causes of sweat under arms is because of its sweat gland.
