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Sign in to savePerspiration, also known as sweat, is the fluid secreted by sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
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Sweat is a fluid produced by glands in the skin that helps mammals regulate their body temperature and remove waste. It matters because it's one of the body's primary cooling mechanisms, allowing heat to escape as the sweat evaporates from the skin.
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- Antiperspirant
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- Definitions
- Signs and symptoms
- Causes
- Pathological sweating and symptoms
- Hyperhidrosis
- Night sweats
- Mechanism
- Composition
- Other functions
- Antimicrobial
- Society and culture
- Artificial perspiration
- Diagnostics
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- References
- Further reading
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Perspiration, also known as sweat, is the fluid secreted by sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
Two types of sweat glands can be found in humans: eccrine glands and apocrine glands. The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body and are responsible for secreting the watery, brackish sweat most often triggered by excessive body temperature. Apocrine sweat glands are restricted to the armpits and a few other areas of the body and produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion which then gains its characteristic odor from bacterial decomposition.