the.com/sweat gland
Your body's built-in air conditioner, running on salt water and poor life choices.
means A small coiled tube in the skin that secretes watery fluid to cool the body and excrete waste.
from 'Sweat' traces back to Old English 'swāt,' from a very old Germanic root also tied to Latin 'sudor' — both likely descending from a shared ancient Indo-European word for sweating. 'Gland' comes from Latin 'glans,' meaning acorn, because early anatomists thought these little secreting organs resembled tiny acorns tucked under the skin.
- count
- about 2 to 4 million per person
- density
- feet have more sweat glands than anywhere else
- two types
- eccrine cools you, apocrine causes body odor
- output
- can produce over a liter of sweat hourly