(a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) An extensive immunohistochemical study of other normal tissues reveals that the majority show only weak focal staining with SM-3 or none at all, the distal tubules and collecting ducts of the kidney, and sebaceous glands being the only normal tissues studied to show homogeneously positive staining.
(2) The ultrastructure of the sebaceous gland of the camel is generally similar to that of other animals.
(3) Adrenal androgens appear to be the major determinants of sebaceous gland activity during the prepubertal period and to be additive to another hormone or hormones during puberty.
(4) The clinical and histological characteristics of sebaceous carcinomas of our series are compared with those recorded in the literature.
(5) Specifically discussed are mixed tumor, monomorphic adenoma, carcinoma ex-pleomorphic adenoma, clear-cell tumor, sebaceous lymphadenoma, and sebaceous carcinoma.
(6) We further document for the first time that IL-1R in normal skin is localized to the living layers of the epidermis, sebaceous and eccrine glands, as well as to a prominent network of dermal dendritic cells, and upper dermal blood vessels.
(7) The virus initially appeared within certain keratinocytes, sometimes surrounded by keratinocytes whose surfaces were also positive for the antigens, in the lower epidermal layers including the hair follicles, and then extended upward to the entire epidermis and downward to the sebaceous glands 1-2 days later, when no macroscopic skin lesion was seen.
(8) A high proportion of these sebaceous tumors (69%) exhibited specifically-associated hyperplasia of the overlying epidermis.
(9) Sebaceous glands were absent in all stages of folliculitis in seven of eight follicular units.
(10) We here report a fourth case of recurrent sebaceous carcinoma with metastases that occurred on the face of an 82-year-old woman who had received radiation to the area for cosmetic epilation 35 years previously.
(11) The distribution and activities of several oxidative enzymes in various regions of the sebaceous glands of the domestic cat have been studied.
(12) Our case is very similar both clinically and histologically to that of 'giant solitary sebaceous gland hyperplasia' described by Kudoh et al.
(13) Linoleic acid was incorporated into the triglyceride (triacylglycerol) fraction of the sebaceous gland lipid at a greater rate than palmitic and oleic acids.
(14) Sebaceous glands were significantly reduced in volume and showed decreased metabolic activity as measured by glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and succinic dehydrogenase enzyme activities.
(15) An infant with the linear nevus sebaceous syndrome also had new findings of porencephaly and nonfunctioning major cerebral venous sinuses.
(16) It is concluded that the sebaceous glands in males show no morphological change in relation to age between the 20s and 50s.
(17) Mucous cell proliferation in a periapical radicular cyst from a patient with a family history of colonic malignancies and multiple sebaceous neoplasms of the skin, so-called Muir-Torre syndrome, is reported.
(18) Both clear-cut benign and transitional sebaceous neoplasms should also be recognized as having the potential to undergo an ominous clinical regrowth upon subtotal excision and a complete squamous transformation.
(19) With the use of an immunohistologic technique with monospecific anti-CA 1, we demonstrated two different sources of the protein, mucous salivary glands and hair roots, where it originates from sebaceous glands.
(20) The following conclusions can be drawn from our study and applied to external therapy: a detergent like Dermofug should be used instead of an alcohol to enhance the penetration of a drug into the infrainfundibulum of the sebaceous glands, since the former can block the growth of Propionibacterium spp.
Setaceous
Definition:
(a.) Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.
(a.) Bristelike in form or texture; as, a setaceous feather; a setaceous leaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the spheres are incubated under stationary conditions for a long time, they become setaceous and transform into coils.