Sweat Glands

Question 1

What are sweat glands also called?

Answer 1

Sudoriferous

Question 2

What are the 4 types of sweat glands?

Answer 2

1. Eccrine
2. Apocrine
3. Ceruminous
4. Mammary

Question 3

What are the 2 true sweat glands?

Answer 3

Eccrine and apocrine

Question 4

Eccrine

Answer 4

• Most abundant
• Abundant on thick skin (palms & soles) & forehead
• 99% water w/some salts, vit. C, antibodies, dermicidin, lactic acid, and urea
• Merocrine

Question 5

Apocrine

Answer 5

• Confined to axillary and anogenital areas
• Longer than eccrine glands, ducts empty into hair follicles
• Odorless until broken-down
• Activated during puberty (hormones)
• Emotion/Stress response

Question 6

Ceruminous

Answer 6

• Secretes cerumin (earwax)
• Modified apocrine gland
• Secretes to deter insects and foreign material

Question 7

Mammary

Answer 7

• Specialized sweat gland
• Secretes milk
• Hormone activated

Question 8

Dermicidin

Answer 8

• Acid mantle
• Kills bacteria on the skin

Question 9

What are sebaceous glands also know as?

Answer 9

Oil glands

Question 10

Sebaceous glands

Answer 10

• Secrete oily secretion called sebum
• Become so enlarged they burst (Holocrine)
• Secretion of sebum is stimulated by hormones (androgens)
• Activated by both sexes during puberty

Question 11

What are the 2 sebaceous glands?

Answer 11

1. Acne
2. Seborrhea

Question 12

Acne

Answer 12

• Active inflammation of the sebaceous glands accompanied by “pimples”
• Is caused by bacterial infection of staphylococcus which can lead to bacterial infection

Question 13

Seborrhea

Answer 13

Caused by overactive sebaceous gland
* Ex. oily, flakes, on scalp of newborns