Sebaceous Gland

Definition: Sebaceous Gland

Sebaceous Gland

Noun

1. A cutaneous gland that secretes sebum (usually into a hair follicle) for lubricating hair and skin.

Specialty Definitions: Sebaceous Gland

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Gland that secretes sebum. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Sebaceous Gland

Synonyms: glandulae sebaceae (n), sebaceous follicle (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sebaceous Gland

English words defined with "sebaceous gland": chalazion ♦ eye infection ♦ hordeolum ♦ Meibomian cyst, Meibomian gland, milium ♦ pilar cyst, pilosebaceous ♦ sebaceous cyst, steatocystoma, sty, stye ♦ tarsal gland ♦ uropygial gland ♦ wen, Whitehead. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sebaceous gland": Harderian Gland, hordeolum sty ♦ Neoplasms, Adnexal and Skin Appendage. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sebaceous Gland

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sebaceous gland	57
sebaceous gland hyperplasia	3
sebaceous gland disease	3
sebaceous gland cyst	2
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Modern Translations: Sebaceous Gland

Language		Translations for "sebaceous gland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		talirauhanen. (various references)

French		glande sébacée. (various references)

German		Talgdrüse. (various references)

Italian		ghiandola sebacea. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		皮脂腺 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひしせ�". (various references)

Pig Latin		ebaceoussay andglay

Spanish		glándula sebácea (oil gland). (various references)

Swedish		fettkörtel. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sebaceous Gland

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-e-g-l-n-o-s-s-u"
	-4 letters: agendaless, ascendable, coagulases, decalogues, doubleness, gasconades, scandalous, seasonable, subdeacons.
	-5 letters: analogues, angeluses, becudgels, bludgeons, bluenoses, boundless, canoeable, caseloads, coagulase, congealed, counseled, danceable, deaconess, decalogue, educables, escalades, gasconade, gasolenes, guessable, nucleases, scablands, sebaceous, seladangs, slugabeds, soundable, subdeacon, subleased, unblessed.
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