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Sweating (emotional)

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Emotional sweating is a consequence of higher cerebral centres acting on the thermoregulatory centres in the anterior hypothalamus. Emotions such as fear and anxiety prompt eccrine gland sweating, predominantly of the palms and axillae.


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