sweat ducts
Perspiration exit routes
Sweat ducts are the tiny tubes that carry sweat from the sweat glands to the surface of the skin.
Each duct spirals up through the layers of skin and opens as a pore.
The body has millions of them, concentrated in the palms, soles, and forehead.
- poresMinute dermal openings
- perspirationFluid from exertion
- glandsSecreting organs
- skinBody's outer layer
- moistureSmall amounts of liquid
secretion · epidermis · follicles · salty · salt crystals · body odor · beads · droplets · cooling · thermoregulation · body heat · exocrine · tubules · dermis · clogged · blockage · heat · humidity
- skin anatomydermis, epidermis, hypodermis, subcutis, cutis