0 one of the small organs under the skin that produce sweat --
1 a gland in the skin that produces sweat --
It is a disorder of the mucus-secreting glands of the lungs, pancreas, mouth, gastro-intestinal tract and sweat glands of the 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.
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.
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.
Clinical symptoms comprise trauma-induced skin fragility and ectodermal dysplasia affecting hair, nails and sweat glands.
If the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system is highly aroused, then sweat gland activity also increases, which in turn increases skin conductance.
These signs and symptoms are usually mild and include a few missing or abnormal teeth, sparse hair, and some problems with sweat gland function.
Aluminium-based complexes react with the electrolytes in the sweat to form a gel plug in the duct of the sweat gland.
