sebum

Meaning

A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.

Synonyms

fat

fatness

fats

fatty

grease

greasy

gunky

lipid

oily

oleaginous

tallow

unethical

sebum cutaneum

sebaceous matter

lipopectic

mutton tallow

axungia

lipo

clatty

Translations

sebo

sébum

Talg

sebo

secreción sebácea

sebum

talg

Hauttalg

زهم

sebo

secreção sebácea

σμηγματογόνος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsibm̩/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease; suet”).