Evaporative Rate Patterns From Small Skin Areas as Measured by an Infrared Gas Analyzer

1 September 1951

journal article
research article
Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology

Vol. 4 (3) , 208-214
https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1951.4.3.208

Abstract

The evaporative rate from thermally sweating skin, as measured by an infrared gas analyzer, was found to be pulsatile. The avg. frequency of the pulsations was 7/min. with a standard deviation of 2/ min. Simultaneous measurement of paired skin areas with duplicate apparatus revealed that the pulsations in sweat rate occured simultaneously in widely separated skin areas. Evidence was presented which suggests that these pulsations are due to intermittent stimulation of the sweat glands by the autonomic nervous system.

Keywords

SWEAT

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