perspiration
Let an agent explain perspiration and its physiology, relay composition, kinds and roles from physiological sources, describe abnormal sweating in general terms, and route personal concerns to clinicians.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What perspiration is.
Definition
Definition and composition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is sweat, what is it made of, and how do eccrine and apocrine sweat differ? definition
- Is the question about sweat or another skin secretion? boundary
Triggers
Triggers.
Triggers
Triggers.
- How do heat, exercise, stress and emotion trigger sweating, including palms and axillae? definition
- Which entry fits sweat gland? action
Physiology Physiology.
Cooling
Thermoregulation.
Cooling
Cooling.
- How does evaporative cooling work, and how does acclimatisation change sweating? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Balance
Fluid and salt balance.
Balance
Balance.
- How does sweating affect hydration and electrolytes, and what do sport science guidelines advise in general terms? provenance
- Which entry fits heat illness? action
Clinical Clinical.
Abnormal
Abnormal sweating.
Abnormal
Abnormal.
- What are hyperhidrosis, anhidrosis and night sweats, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user describing a symptom, which needs a clinician? boundary
Tests
Sweat tests.
Tests
Tests.
- How is sweat used in diagnosis, such as the cystic fibrosis sweat test? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Culture and products.
Products
Deodorants and antiperspirants.
Products
Products.
- How do antiperspirants and deodorants work, and how are they regulated? provenance
- Which entry fits antiperspirant? action
Culture
Culture.
Culture
Culture.
- How do cultures view sweating, from saunas to body odour norms? provenance
- Which entry fits sauna? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.LIV
- Other names and narrower kinds
- stress-induced sweat, sweat of palm, sweat of axilla, sweat of scrotum
What it is Filled
The fluid secreted by sweat glands in the skin, composed mostly of water with sodium chloride, urea, lactate and other solutes, produced by eccrine glands over most of the body for thermoregulation and by apocrine glands in the axilla, groin and scrotum in response to stress and emotion, with palmar and plantar sweating linked to arousal; sweating cools the body by evaporation, and abnormal sweating is a symptom in several conditions.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain perspiration and its physiology, relay composition, kinds and roles from physiological sources, describe abnormal sweating in general terms, and route personal concerns to clinicians.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Evaporative cooling
- Two gland types
- Emotional and thermal triggers
- Salt loss
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Give personal diagnosis or treatment advice for sweating disorders in place of a clinician.
- Analyse a person's sweat or body odour data without their consent.
- Shame a person for how much they sweat or how they smell.
- Present antiperspirant or treatment claims as medically proven without evidence.
Only with a human decision
- Any clinical treatment for excessive sweating.
- Using sweat-based biometric or drug-test data about a person.
May
- Explain how sweating regulates body temperature and what affects it.
- Advise on hydration and heat safety from public health guidance.
- Encourage a person with sudden changes in sweating or heat illness signs to seek medical care.
Moral aspects Filled
- Visible sweating and body odour are sources of shame and social exclusion, especially for teenagers.
- Failure to sweat in heat is a medical emergency, and heat deaths are rising.
Who is affected
- People with sweating disorders
- Outdoor workers in heat
- Teenagers
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; the treating clinician answers for care of a sweating disorder.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q112826975 - registry parent class
- Q12334861 - registry parent class
- Q1383944 - registry parent class
- Q185557 - registry parent class
related
- secretion - in registry terms
- excrement - in registry terms
- particular anatomical entity - in registry terms
- sweat gland - in the skin
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.perspiration
- Wikidata: Q3503092 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3503092)
- MeSH: D013542 sweat
Direct properties required Filled
- water content: about 99 percent
- maximum sweat rate: about 2-4 litres per hour - acclimatised adults
- sodium concentration: about 20-80 mmol/L - varies
Recognition required Filled
- Sweat gland secretion
- Eccrine thermal sweat, apocrine sweat of axilla and scrotum, stress and palm sweat
- Sebum is an oily skin secretion; tears and saliva are other secretions
- Clear salty fluid on the skin.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain physiology
- relay composition and kinds
- describe abnormal sweating
- route personal concerns
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Dehydration and heat illness from excessive sweating
- Agents giving personal medical advice
- Confusing sweat with other secretions
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines on hyperhidrosis
- Occupational heat stress standards
- Sweat testing standards for cystic fibrosis diagnosis
Context of use required Filled
- Cooling the body and responding to stress.
- eccrine thermoregulatory sweat
- apocrine sweat of the axilla, groin and scrotum
- emotional and stress-induced sweat
- palmar and plantar sweat
- gustatory sweating
- abnormal sweating: hyperhidrosis and anhidrosis
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q3503092: perspiration - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Perspiration - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should hyperhidrosis and sweat gland be the primary linked entries?
- How should physiological references be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming sites and triggers; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q3503092/spec.json