Usually means: Natural oil produced by skin.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word sebum:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. sebum: Merriam-Webster
  2. sebum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sebum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sebum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sebum: Vocabulary.com
  6. sebum: Wordnik
  7. sebum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sebum: Wiktionary
  9. sebum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sebum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sebum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sebum: Dictionary.com
  13. Sebum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. sebum: Rhymezone
  15. sebum: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sebum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sebum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sebum: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sebum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sebum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sebum: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Sebum: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  8. sebum: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. sebum: Medical dictionary
  10. Sebum: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sebum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sebum: Beauty & Health Glossary
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (physiology) A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.

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