| Physiological sweating from cutaneous eccrine glands maintains normothermia and skin hydration. |
| The skin contains two types of sudoriferous glands, the eccrine and apocrine, whose secretions can cause problematic body odour. |
| The eccrine sudoriferous glands are distributed on the entire surface of the body with more abundance on palms, soles and on the forehead. |
| The sweat from the apocrine glands is thicker than that produced by the eccrine glands. |
| A second type of merocrine gland, not associated with hair follicles, is termed eccrine because the cells remain intact during secretion. |
| When pathologists say the mammary gland is a sweat gland, they mean an apocrine gland not an eccrine gland. |
