sweat gland
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2.7
- noun
- /swɛt ɡlænd/
- Specialized
:
glándula sudorípara
- When your body starts to heat up, your brain sends signals to millions of sweat glands in your skin to help cool you down.
- number of sweat glands
- functional sweat glands
But in monkeys, they started to evolve having some sweat glands on their bodies, but not many.
- But in monkeys, they started to evolve having some sweat glands on their bodies, but not many.
- That's where our hair follicles, oil glands and sweat glands reside.
- And I have a nice natural glow going on thanks to my sweat glands.
- If you have issues with sweat under the arms and like smelling and things mirror dry literally just like kills your sweat glands under your arms.
Examples
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Under warm conditions, the skin's sweat glands will secrete sweat via ducts onto the surface, transferring heat out of the body.
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Hence, a major reason that tropical natives can remain comfortable under hot conditions is that they have more functional sweat glands and can cool down faster.
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All of us are born with roughly the same actual number of sweat glands, none of which respond to heat at birth.
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Early signs of puberty are increased activity of sweat glands and the sudden appearance of this.
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Other studies had shown that sweat glands begin to form in the human fetus at about the fourth or fifth month of gestation.
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Then, in the fourth month of pregnancy, the fetus begins to form skin, hair, sweat glands, and eyelids.
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One can easily imagine how, in the tropics, people born with the most sweat glands would be less prone to heat stroke, would feel less wiped out much of the time, and so would have more energy to rear babies and pass on their genes.
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The physiologists found that the number of functional sweat glands in tropical-born Japanese rivaled the high numbers in tropical natives!
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While all the cooling power of sweat arises from its water content, sweat also has to contain salt because our sweat glands have no mechanism for secreting water itself.
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When your body temperature rises, the sweat gland produces moisture to help cool you down.
Synonyms
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3.5
A body part that makes and releases chemicals like hormones into the blood or through small tubes
A small part of the skin that makes sweat to cool the body
How Oily
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small organ that produces sweat' is directly derivable from the constituents 'sweat' (the fluid) + 'gland' (an organ that secretes fluids), following a straightforward noun–noun compound pattern. This compositional, cross-linguistically common construction would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The compound noun sweat gland names a tiny part of the skin that makes sweat. The word gland means a part that makes a liquid, and because this part makes sweat to cool the body, sweat gland means 'a small part that makes sweat to help cool the body'.