ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands, from Latin sudor ‘sweat’, are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat. Sweat glands are a type of exocrine gland, which are glands that produce and secrete substances onto an epithelial surface by way of a duct.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sudoriferous glands, also known as sweat glands, are either of two types of secretory skin glands, eccrine or apocrine. Eccrine and apocrine glands reside within the dermis and consist of secretory cells and a central lumen into which material is secreted.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sweat glands, also called sudoriferous glands, are simple tubular glands found almost everywhere on our body.

Detailed explanation-4: -The secretory portion is found in the dermis, the middle layer of the skin. Sometimes it’s also found in the hypodermis, the deepest layer of our skin.