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Definition of Sebum
1. Noun. The oily secretion of the sebaceous glands; with perspiration it moistens and protects the skin.
Definition of Sebum
1. Noun. (physiology) A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sebum
1. a fatty matter secreted by certain glands of the skin [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sebum
1. A thick substance that is secreted by sebaceous glands that consists of fat and cellular debris. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sebum
Literary usage of Sebum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Chemical Physiology and Pathology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1891)
"THE sebum When freshly secreted, the sebum is an oily substance, which seta, ...
Other situations where large quantities of sebum, or substances like it, ..."
2. Hand-book of Skin Diseases by Isidor Neumann (1872)
"By comedones we understand the plugs of sebum which fill and distend the ducts
of the sebaceous glands. The mode of production of comedo is the following: ..."
3. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin by John Vietch Shoemaker (1909)
"The sebaceous matter, or sebum, is a semi-fluid material reted by the sebaceous
glands. It is composed of free fat, fat-cells, ..."
4. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry: For Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1904)
"The sebum.—The sebum is the specific secretory product of the sebaceous glands,
and serves the purpose of a lubricant. Amounts sufficient for analytical ..."
5. Roman Antiquities by Alexander Adam, John Richardson Major (1835)
"... vel sebum), Serf. ibid. et JEn. i. 727. Val. Max. in. 6. 4. Varr. de Vit. Pop.
R. As torches were used both at funerals and marriages, ..."
6. Diseases of the skin: Their Symptomatology, Etiology and Diagnosis, with by Henry M. Dearborn (1903)
"sebum.—The secretion of the sebaceous glands is a semi-fluid fat, which is
insensibly discharged from the sebaceous glands upon the skin, ..."
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