George M. Church

A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.

American Scientist

Henry Gray

The appendages of the skin are the nails, the hairs, the sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and their ducts. The nails and hairs are peculiar modifications of the epidermis, consisting essentially of the same cellular structure as that membrane.

English Scientist

Trinny Woodall

I went on Accutane, which is very strong. Your sebaceous glands dry up, you can't exercise, and you have very dry lips. But it was a miracle, and it worked.

English Designer

Used in health contexts to describe glands, cysts, or conditions related to skin oils.

Medical Term

Often signals a problem, such as excess oil, or a medical condition when used.

Not Generally Positive

Commonly found in biology and human anatomy subjects; helps to understand skin structures.

Science Classes

 it surely can't be very pleasant at all and of course their coat is not because they are cold it's more to do with the fact that they trying to repel water so they secrete in oil through sebaceous glands on the skin which coats that fur and repels water and keeps them nice and dry when they try and use water to evade

Safari Live - Day 27 PIPE...

 by sebaceous glands nestled inside the dermis. These skin microbes keep the immune system in a state of constant surveillance, ensuring that it’s ready to react if the body really is at risk. Beyond this protective role, your skin is also a sensory organ that helps regulate your body’s temperature,

The science of skin -...

 same shape and size and they're regularly spaced whereas in the egg crime gland that provides sweat the cells are shaped in this kind of coiling snake-like shape the sebaceous gland are these balls of sebum the oil that causes pimples and here is a tumor and the

Sebaceous