Chapter 5 Part B Honors

Cool the body

• Sweat glands

• Oil glands

• Axillary glands

• Ceruminous glands

Most numerous type of sweat glands

• Apocrine

• Eccrine

• Mammary

• Ceruminous

Sweat from this sweat gland is mostly water

• Ceruminous

• Mammary

• Eccrine

• Apocrine

Function of this sweat glands is thermoregulation

• Mammary

• Eccrine

• Apocrine

• Ceruminous

Bacteria break down sweat from these glands, leading to body odor

• Apocrine

• Eccrine

• Mammary

• Ceruminous

Glands that begin functioning at puberty

• Eccrine

• Mammary

• Ceruninous

• Apocrine

Glands that make earwax

• Eccrine

• Apocrine

• Ceruminous

• Mammary

Glands that secrete milk

• Eccrine

• Apocrine

• Mammary

• Ceruminous

Glands that are widely distributed, except for thick skin of palms and soles.

• Ceruminous

• Mammary

• Sebaceous

• Apocrine

Blocked sebaceous glands

• Whiteheads

• Acne

• Cradle cap

• Earwax