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sweat gland

NOUN
  1. any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration

How To Use sweat gland In A Sentence

  • The study, published in the April 2002 issue of the journal Archives of Dermatology, suggested one reason is due to a larger area of close-set sweat glands in men's armpits. Out, Out, Pesky Sweat Stains
  • My heart would palpitate and sweat glands shift into overdrive.
  • This deepens the sweat glands, allowing runners to reabsorb more salt. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although it is composed of two primary layers, the outer epidermis and the inner dermis, it also contains arteries, veins, nerve fibers, sweat glands and hair follicles among other things.
  • The exposed surface of skin is not smooth but creased by flexion folds around skeletal joints, and it is also pitted by openings of hair follicles and sweat gland ducts.
  • The same way it works on muscles to make them not contract so the skin doesn't wrinkle, it -- the same substance contains acetal coli (ph) a neurotransmitter -- it actually stops the sweat gland from secreting the fluid. CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2005
  • The apocrine sweat glands are confined to the axillae, areolae of the nipples, the anogenital area, and the external auditory meatus.
  • The pilomotor fibers to the hairs and the motor fibers to the sweat glands apparently have a distribution similar to that of the vasoconstrictors of the skin. IX. Neurology. 7. The Sympathetic Nerves
  • Everyone is born with the same number of sweat glands but they mature in the first two years. Times, Sunday Times
  • The glandular epithelium resembles that seen in apocrine sweat glands.
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