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Eccrine Sweat Gland
Eccrine sweat glands (right)are found all over your body; however, their distribution is especially dense on the palms, the soles of your feet, and on your forehead. The sweat produced by eccrine sweat is mostly water with some salt (sodium chloride), some ureic acid, and some lactic acid. The sweat produced by eccrine sweat glands is supposed to help cool you by evaporation. Eccrine sweat glands are found deep in the reticular dermis. Eccrine sweat glands are composed of very small, tightly coiled tubes with stratified cuboidal epithelial. The ducts tend to be straight and exit directly on the skin.
Slides on this page were made by students between the spring of 2018 and the spring of 2020. Go through
the diffrent student pictures and compare them to your lab book picture. Then slect one to draw on paper.
Draw and label eccrine sweat gland. (Note, there may be sebaceous glads too. All but slide 7 are from the scalp slide.
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