NEET PG DENTAL EXAM

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: -00:00 UNKNOWN Sebaceous or oil glands discharge a waxy oily substance called sebum into the hair follicles which lubricate the hair shaft and the skin. Sudoriferous or sweat glands are located over our entire body and consists of two types. Apocrine sweat glands and merocrine sweat glands.

Detailed explanation-3: -The eccrine gland, apocrine gland, apoeccrine gland, and ceruminous gland (modified sudoriferous gland) are the four types of sudoriferous sweat glands.