How to Use sebaceous in a Sentence

sebaceous

adjective
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  • That's the work of sebaceous glands, also known as oil glands.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
  • And, just like the skin on your face, your scalp is home to lots of oil-producing sebaceous glands.
    — Sarah Madaus, SELF, 26 Jan. 2023
  • That overabundance of oil in all the wrong places is created by the sebaceous glands in your skin.
    — Stephanie Saltzman, Allure, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Just like the skin on your face, your scalp contains sebaceous glands that produce oil (sebum).
    — Emily Rekstis, SELF, 10 July 2020
  • The neck has fewer sebaceous glands, which secrete oil.
    — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Men also produce more oil in their sebaceous glands, and the skin may need extra help with oil control.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • Just like the skin on your face, the sebaceous glands on your scalp produces oil as a protective barrier, and to keep the skin from drying out.
    — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Lip pimples will appear any place there are sebaceous glands, which can be found in the edges of the lips and the lip line, or the vermillion border, Dr. King and Dr. Mack explain.
    — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Skin's acid mantle composed of sebum, which is the natural oil produced by the sebaceous glands in skin and our body’s sweat.
    — Danusia Wnek, Good Housekeeping, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Breakouts happen when your sebaceous glands become clogged with oil and dead skin cells.
    — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The process is regulated by a protein called Gata6⁺ made by sebaceous duct cells.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
  • Mammals have three types of sweat glands: apocrine, sebaceous and eccrine.
    — Asher Y. Rosinger, Scientific American, 1 July 2021
  • It’s composed of sebum, the natural oil produced by skin’s sebaceous glands, and sweat.
    — April Franzino, Good Housekeeping, 31 Jan. 2023
  • What’s more, the dryness triggers your sebaceous glands to overproduce oil, which may prompt a vicious cycle of washing your hair more to get rid of the greasiness.
    — Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Turns out, your ears (and the area behind and around them) actually contain oil glands, which produce sebum — the oily stuff that causes clogged pores and sebaceous cysts.
    — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 19 Sep. 2018
  • Also known as cerumen, earwax is made from ceruminous glands that secrete wax and sebaceous glands that pump out oil.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 29 Jan. 2019
  • Also, a man’s sebaceous glands create 50 percent more oil than a woman’s, putting men at greater risk of developing oily scalp and hair.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Your hair naturally creates oil, otherwise known as sebum, which comes from sebaceous glands in the skin of your scalp.
    — Sha Ravine Spencer, Health.com, 5 July 2021
  • Vernix is a sebaceous layer of cells that almost appear as a creamy white substance that covers a baby as it is delivered.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 29 Oct. 2018
  • Washing in hard water is also an issue; extra minerals in tap H2O can leave a substance on the skin that blocks sebaceous glands.
    — Amy Capetta, Woman's Day, 12 June 2017
  • Your skin has millions of tiny sebaceous glands, which are connected to hair follicles all over your body, and produce an oil called sebum to protect your skin.
    — Marisa Cohen, Good Housekeeping, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Lanolin is a substance that is secreted by the sebaceous glands of sheep and other wool-bearing animals.
    — Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Isotretinoin is, in simplest terms, a derivative of vitamin A that effectively shuts down the sebaceous (a.k.a. oil) glands in skin.
    — Gabby Shacknai, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Sebum is produced by the sebaceous glands, which naturally cover our bodies from tip to toe.
    — Rebecca Dancer, Allure, 2 Apr. 2021
  • But AviClear gets to the root cause of acne by targeting the sebaceous glands (with a nonablative 1726 nanometer wavelength laser) and zapping their excess oil.
    — Baze Mpinja, Allure, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Cedarwood bark oil helps balance the activity of the skin’s sebaceous glands and contributes to this shampoo’s natural earthy scent.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 May 2022
  • The others are sebum (the oil produced by sebaceous glands to keep the skin moist), which C. acnes uses as a food source; plugged-up hair follicles; and an inflammatory response.
    — Martin Oeggerli, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Hormones: Androgen hormones overstimulate the sebaceous (oil) glands, which makes your body produce so much oil that it gets stuck in your pores and traps bacteria.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 Nov. 2017
  • When your body and mind experience stress, levels of the hormone cortisol increase, which stimulates the skin’s sebaceous glands to produce more oil.
    — Stacey Colino, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
  • Deeper peels penetrate the dermis, a deeper layer of the skin which contains sweat glands, nerve endings, hair follicles, sebaceous glands and blood vessels.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018

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