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sweat glands

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  1. Glands in the skin that secrete sweat.


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Eccrine sweat glands perform a critical function: cooling the body via evaporation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

The hospital nurse told police that children 2 and older are better able to regulate internal body temperature than babies, who do not have fully developed sweat glands, according to the police report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2025

MiraDry targets and eliminates underarm sweat glands, and it outperforms “even the strongest antiperspirants and alternative treatments,” according to the Bucky Body Center, with a promised sweat reduction of approximately 82 percent.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2024

The researchers discovered that this particular secretoglobin is produced primarily by cells in the sweat glands.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 19, 2024

I hadn’t realized how sweltering the room was, how stimulated my sweat glands had gotten.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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