seba

Definition

plural of sebum

Etymology

From Latin sēba, plural of sēbum.

Example Sentences

• "It is of interest that horse sebum contains squalene, whereas the seba of ruminants, including sheep, goat, llama and dromedary, contain isocholesterol."
• "The changes in the composition of the sterols (as well as the effects upon the composition of the aliphatic monohydric alcohols and fatty acids) were greatest in the seba of the two rats which also exhibited lowering of the corrected secretion rate (p. 101); the seba of the other two animals were almost identical with that of the control group.[…]So far only the seba of man and sheep have been studied in detail; only preliminary data are available about the composition of the skin surface lipids of other mammals, including the common laboratory animals.[…]Guinea pig, mouse and rabbit. All these seba are similar in lacking squalene, isocholesterol and triglycerides, exhibiting low values for free fatty acids and containing lathosterol (Wheatley, 1953, 1956; Wheatley & James, 1957)."
• "They investigated the seba of two patients by gas liquid chromatography (this method being sensitive to less than 1 part per 10 million) 12 months after the onset of the lesions and at a time when the disease process was still active."