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sweat

Also known as perspiration

Perspiration, 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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Key facts

Medical condition (new).name: Perspiration
Medical condition (new).synonyms: Sweating, hidrosis, diaphoresis
Medical condition (new).image: Amanda Françozo At The Runner Sports Fragment.jpg
Medical condition (new).caption: Droplets of perspiration on the skin
Medical condition (new).field: Dermatology
Medical condition (new).symptoms: Body odor
Medical condition (new).complications: Dehydration
Medical condition (new).causes: ExerciseFeverHeatHyperthermiaHot flash
Medical condition (new).treatment: Antiperspirant

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Research

40,369 papers

Sweating Rate and Sweat Sodium Concentration in Athletes: A Review of Methodology and Intra/Interindividual Variability.ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Baker LBDOI: 10.1007/s40279-017-0691-5
Sweat mechanisms and dysfunctions in atopic dermatitis.ReviewJournal of dermatological science · 2018Hendricks AJ, Vaughn AR, Clark AK et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jdermsci.2017.11.005
Normative data for sweating rate, sweat sodium concentration, and sweat sodium loss in athletes: An update and analysis by sport.Journal of sports sciences · 2019Barnes KA, Anderson ML, Stofan JR et al.DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2019.1633159
Sweat as an Efficient Natural Moisturizer.ReviewCurrent problems in dermatology · 2016Shiohara T, Sato Y, Komatsu Y et al.DOI: 10.1159/000446756
Commentary: Don't sweat the compensatory sweating.The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2019Shemanski KA, Kim AWDOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2019.08.035
Sweat evaporation in humans: A molecular and thermodynamic perspective.ReviewExperimental physiology · 2026Ashworth ETDOI: 10.1113/EP093011
Sweat testing to evaluate autonomic function.ReviewClinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 2009Illigens BM, Gibbons CHDOI: 10.1007/s10286-008-0506-8
Sweat, the driving force behind normal skin: an emerging perspective on functional biology and regulatory mechanisms.ReviewJournal of dermatological science · 2015Murota H, Matsui S, Ono E et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.jdermsci.2014.08.011

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Contents

Definitions
Signs and symptoms
Causes
Pathological sweating and symptoms
Hyperhidrosis
Night sweats
Mechanism
Composition
Other functions
Antimicrobial
Society and culture
Artificial perspiration
Diagnostics
See also
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.