How to Use sweat gland in a Sentence

sweat gland

noun

• The odor in sweat comes from bacteria that live in and around the sweat glands.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 11 Apr. 2023
• The calories the sweat glands burn just to make sweat are minimal.
  — Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024
• He was born without sweat glands, or at least, not very many.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, New York Times, 27 June 2023
• The hands and feet have more sweat gland density than any other part of the body.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 21 June 2022
• 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
• The drug is inside a cloth wiped over the skin daily to block sweat glands from activating.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2018
• Your body secretes sweat, a liquid that contains salt, from sweat glands.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 25 Nov. 2023
• In tandem, sweat glands pump water, drawn from that blood, onto your skin.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Your body has two types of sweat glands, according to the Mayo Clinic: eccrine and apocrine.
  — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 8 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In humans, sweat glands develop between 20 and 30 weeks, the researchers wrote.
  — Michael Nedelman, CNN, 18 May 2018
• 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
• By blocking the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, that makes your sweat glands turn on and do their jobs.
  — Donna Freydkin, Allure, 16 Oct. 2017
• 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
• By contrast, the drug distributed by the Qbrexza cloth will block sweat production by inhibiting sweat glands.
  — Brittany Shoot, Fortune, 2 July 2018
• 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
• Aluminum chloride is a form of salt that works by temporarily blocking sweat gland ducts.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, SELF, 21 June 2022
• But beyond the apocrine leftovers in our armpits and pubic areas, human sweat glands are all eccrine.
  — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
• Some surgeries can remove sweat glands in severe cases.
  — Cathy Cassata, Health, 28 Jan. 2024
• Those are caused by cell overgrowth from the sweat glands — and not milia, like originally expected.
  — Amanda Chan, Teen Vogue, 8 Oct. 2017
• And bleedings from areas without sweat glands have been reported, too.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Surgery: This includes procedures to cut nerves that stimulate sweat or remove sweat glands.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 25 Nov. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Whole-body antiperspirants, on the other hand, contain aluminum compounds designed to block sweat glands.
  — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 10 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024