sebaceous gland

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Noun

sebaceous gland (plural sebaceous glands)

1. (anatomy) A gland of the skin which secretes an oily substance, sebum, usually into a hair follicle near the surface of the skin.

Synonyms

• sebaceous follicle
• glandulae sebaceae

Translations

gland of skin secreting sebum

• Arabic: غُدَّة دُهْنيّة
• Catalan: glàndula sebàcia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮脂腺 (zh) (pízhīxiàn)

• Dutch: talgklier (nl) m or f
• Finnish: talirauhanen (fi)
• German: Talgdrüse (de) f
• Greek: σμηγματογόνος αδένας m (smigmatogónos adénas)
• Hindi: तैल ग्रंथि (tail granthi), वसा ग्रंथि (vasā granthi), त्वग्वसीय ग्रंथि (tvagvasīya granthi)
• Hungarian: faggyúmirigy (hu)
• Irish: faireog gheireach f
• Italian: ghiandola sebacea f
• Kazakh: май безі (mai bezı)
• Latin: glandula sebacea f
• Macedonian: лојна жлезда f (lojna žlezda)
• Maori: repe noni
• Polish: gruczoł łojowy m
• Portuguese: glândula sebácea (pt) f
• Romanian: glandă sebacee (ro) f
• Russian: са́льная железа́ f (sálʹnaja železá)
• Serbo-Croatian: lojna žlijezda, lojnica (sh), salovnica f
• Spanish: glándula sebácea (es) f
• Swedish: talgkörtel c
• Welsh: chwarren sebwm f