How to Use sweat gland in a Sentence
sweat gland
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The odor in sweat comes from bacteria that live in and around the sweat glands.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
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The calories the sweat glands burn just to make sweat are minimal.
—Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
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He was born without sweat glands, or at least, not very many.
—Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 27 June 2023
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The hands and feet have more sweat gland density than any other part of the body.
—Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 21 June 2022
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It is caused when ducts from eccrine sweat glands that lead to the skin’s surface are blocked or inflamed.
—Matthew Sloan, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2023
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The drug is inside a cloth wiped over the skin daily to block sweat glands from activating.
—Washington Post, 30 June 2018
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Your body secretes sweat, a liquid that contains salt, from sweat glands.
—Amanda MacMillan, Health, 25 Nov. 2023
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In tandem, sweat glands pump water, drawn from that blood, onto your skin.
—WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
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The good news: Lips don't have sweat glands, so rocking red lipstick during a workout is chic and safe for your skin.
—Leah Prinzivalli, SELF, 26 Dec. 2017
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Your body has two types of sweat glands, according to the Mayo Clinic: eccrine and apocrine.
—Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 8 May 2018
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Lu upped the ante, tracking stress in an area of the body that contains the highest concentration of eccrine sweat glands: the palm.
—Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
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The ones all over its body where its fur grows are called apocrine sweat glands, and we humans also have them in our armpits and other hairy zones.
—Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
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The cloth—which would be applied directly to the armpits—works to block sweat production by inhibiting the sweat gland.
—Chloe Metzger, Marie Claire, 29 June 2018
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In humans, sweat glands develop between 20 and 30 weeks, the researchers wrote.
—Michael Nedelman, CNN, 18 May 2018
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Clusters of blood vessels and sweat glands under each brown patch act as thermal windows that release heat from the body.
—National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
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By blocking the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, that makes your sweat glands turn on and do their jobs.
—Donna Freydkin, Allure, 16 Oct. 2017
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In fact, there are actually two different kinds of sweat glands in the body – eccrine sweat glands and apocrine sweat glands.
—Alexis Benveniste, Allure, 26 Sep. 2023
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By contrast, the drug distributed by the Qbrexza cloth will block sweat production by inhibiting sweat glands.
—Brittany Shoot, Fortune, 2 July 2018
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If your motivation is running a little low, why not try a new class or get into a team sport to get those sweat glands working?
—Anna Jay, refinery29.com, 15 July 2019
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Aluminum chloride is a form of salt that works by temporarily blocking sweat gland ducts.
—Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 21 June 2022
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But beyond the apocrine leftovers in our armpits and pubic areas, human sweat glands are all eccrine.
—Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
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Some surgeries can remove sweat glands in severe cases.
—Cathy Cassata, Health, 28 Jan. 2024
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Those are caused by cell overgrowth from the sweat glands — and not milia, like originally expected.
—Amanda Chan, Teen Vogue, 8 Oct. 2017
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And bleedings from areas without sweat glands have been reported, too.
—Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
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And, over time, blocking your sweat ducts with metallic salts can risk causing your sweat glands to become dysfunctional, says Dr. Ren.
—Rachael Schultz, Verywell Health, 3 Mar. 2023
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Where the other lawyers and their privileged clients appear poreless, cool to the touch, Louis seems equipped with high-productivity sweat glands.
—James Wolcott, HWD, 27 Apr. 2018
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Surgery: This includes procedures to cut nerves that stimulate sweat or remove sweat glands.
—Amanda MacMillan, Health, 25 Nov. 2023
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Twins Linus, left, and Maarten have more sweat glands and tooth precursors than their older brother Joshua, 5, after being treated with a drug in utero.
—Michael Nedelman, CNN, 18 May 2018
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Some patients even resort to surgery to remove the overactive sweat glands in question, but all of these treatments come with side effects, Dr. Friedman notes.
—Sarah Klein, Health.com, 19 Feb. 2018
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Whole-body antiperspirants, on the other hand, contain aluminum compounds designed to block sweat glands.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 10 June 2024
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