sebaceous gland
any of the cutaneous glands that secrete oily matter for lubricating hair and skin.
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How to use sebaceous gland in a sentence
For example, patients with Parkinson disease produce an unusually high amount of sebum,1 a waxy lipid-rich biofluid excreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, which sensitive noses can detect.
A boil is an inflammatory formation having its starting point in a sebaceous-gland, sweat-gland, or hair-follicle.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin | Henry Weightman StelwagonA boil results when the infection is located in a hair follicle or sebaceous gland.
Manual of Surgery | Alexis Thomson and Alexander MilesThis is merely the solidified secretion from the sebaceous gland.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II | Arnold Cooley
Scientific definitions for sebaceous gland
[ sĭ-bā′shəs ]
Any of the glands that are found in the skin of mammals and secrete sebum into the hair follicles.
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