Anatom3DSebaceous glands
Glandulae sebaceae · Mazové žlázy
Skin & appendages
Looks like
Small grape-like glands attached to the hair follicles, most numerous on the face, scalp, chest and back.
What it does
Release sebum, an oily film that keeps skin and hair supple and waterproof.
Keeping it well
Hormones at puberty enlarge them and blocked pores become acne. Deep, painful, scarring spots warrant treatment early to prevent scars.
Related conditions
- Acne vulgaris
- Alopecia (androgenetic & areata)
- Atopic dermatitis (eczema)
- Blepharitis & styes
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Boils and folliculitis
- Bullous pemphigoid
- Burns
- Candida & fungal infection
- Cellulitis
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chilblains (pernio)
- Cold sores (herpes simplex)
- Contact dermatitis
- Endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Hyperhidrosis
- Hypermobility and Ehlers–Danlos syndromes
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Infantile haemangioma (strawberry mark)
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Keloid & hypertrophic scars
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Lichen planus
- Lichen sclerosus
- Lyme disease
- Mast cell activation & mastocytosis
- Measles
- Melanoma
- Melasma
- Mpox (monkeypox)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Necrotising fasciitis
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
- Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
- Pilonidal sinus
- Pressure ulcers & chronic wounds
- Psoriasis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Radiation injury
- Rosacea
- Roseola (sixth disease)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Scabies & lice
- Scarlet fever
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Seborrhoeic dermatitis & dandruff
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Skin cancer (basal cell & squamous cell)
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Sun damage & actinic keratosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Urticaria & angioedema
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Vitiligo
- Warts, molluscum and skin infections