| sebaceous epithelioma | <tumour> A benign tumour of the sebaceous gland epithelium in which small basaloid or germinative cells predominate. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sebaceous follicles | Numerous holocrine glands in the dermis that usually open into the hair follicles and secrete an oily semifluid sebum. Synonym: glandulae sebaceae, oil glands, sebaceous follicles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sebaceous gland | A normal gland of the skin which empties an oily secretion into the hair follicle near the surface of the skin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sebaceous glands | Numerous holocrine glands in the dermis that usually open into the hair follicles and secrete an oily semifluid sebum. Synonym: glandulae sebaceae, oil glands, sebaceous follicles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sebaceous horn | A solid outgrowth from a sebaceous cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sebaceous tubercle | A small subepidermal keratin cyst, usually multiple and therefore commonly referred to in the plural. Synonym: sebaceous tubercle, tuberculum sebaceum, whitehead. Origin: L. Millet (05 Mar 2000) |
| sebaceus | Synonym: sebaceous. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sebacic | <chemistry> Of or pertaining to fat; derived from, or resembling, fat; specifically, designating an acid (formerly called also sebic, and pyroleic, acid), obtained by the distillation or saponification of certain oils (as castor oil) as a white crystalline substance. Origin: L. Sebum tallow: cf. F. Sebacique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sebate | <chemistry> A salt of sebacic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sebesten | <botany> The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit of two East Indian trees (Cordia Myxa, and C. Latifolia), sometimes used medicinally in pectoral diseases. In the West Indies the name is given to the similar fruit of Cordia Sebestana. Origin: Ar. Sebestan the tree: cf. Sp. Sebesten. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sebiagogic | Synonym: sebiferous. Origin: sebi-+ G. Agogos, leading (05 Mar 2000) |
| sebiferous | 1. <botany> Producing vegetable tallow. 2. <physiology> Producing fat; sebaceous; as, the sebiferous, or sebaceous, glands. Origin: L. Sebum tallow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sebileau | Pierre, French anatomist, 1860-1953. See: Sebileau's hollow, Sebileau's muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sebileau's muscle | <anatomy> Deep fibres of the dartos tunic which pass into the scrotal septum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sebiparous | <physiology> Same as Sebiferous. Origin: L. Sebum tallow + parere to bring forth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |