NEET PG DENTAL EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -A:True. Sweat contains fatty acids and mineral matter as well as a potent anti-infective agent dubbed dermicidin. The first antimicrobial agent discovered that is produced by cells in the skin, dermicidin is active against many different types of bacteria, including Escherichia coli (E.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sweat is a liquid made from 99% water and 1% salt and fat. Up to a quart of sweat evaporates each day. When your body becomes overheated, you sweat more. The evaporation of sweat from your skin cools your body down.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sweat is mostly water. A microfluidic model of the eccrine sweat gland provides details on what solutes partition into sweat, their mechanisms of partitioning, and their fluidic transport to the skin surface. Dissolved in the water are trace amounts of minerals, lactic acid, and urea.

Detailed explanation-4: -perspiration, in most mammals, water given off by the intact skin, either as vapour by simple evaporation from the epidermis (insensible perspiration) or as sweat, a form of cooling in which liquid actively secreted from sweat glands evaporates from the body surface.