Sweat gland

Sweat gland
A cross-section of the human skin, with the sweat gland labeled at the bottom
Details
PrecursorEctoderm[3]
SystemIntegumentary[3]
NerveEccrine: cholinergic sympathetic nerves[4]
Apocrine: adrenergic nerves[5]
Identifiers
Latinglandula sudorifera[1][2]
MeSHD013545
TA98A16.0.00.029
TA27079
FMA59152
Anatomical terminology

Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, from Latin sudor 'sweat',[6][7] are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat. Sweat glands are a type of exocrine gland, which are glands that produce and secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct. There are two main types of sweat glands that differ in their structure, function, secretory product, mechanism of excretion, anatomic distribution, and distribution across species:

Ceruminous glands (which produce ear wax), mammary glands (which produce milk), and ciliary glands in the eyelids are modified apocrine sweat glands.[2][12]

  1. ^ TA A16.0.00.029
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  4. ^ Krstic 2004, p. 464.
  5. ^ Krstic 2004, p. 466.
  6. ^ "sudoriferous". The New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd ed.).
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  8. ^ a b Kurosumi, Shibasaki & Ito 1984, p. 255.
  9. ^ Folk & Semken 1991, p. 181.
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  11. ^ Sørensen & Prasad 1973, p. 173.
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