Glands: Four types of glands make up integumentary system parts: sudoriferous, sebaceous, ceruminous, and mammary glands. Sudoriferous glands produce sweat and genital secretions. Ceruminous ...

Sweat glands. Also known as sudoriferous glands (from the Latin sudor, meaning sweat), these produce sweat to cool the body when it becomes warm. Sweat glands develop from epidermal projections into ...

Sebaceous gland carcinoma. Sebaceous gland carcinoma is a very rare type of skin cancer. It starts in the sebaceous glands. These are the glands that produce our natural skin oils. There are sebaceous ...

Sebum is an oily, waxy substance produced by your body’s sebaceous glands. If you have oily skin or hair, your body may be producing an excess amount of sebum and other fat-like molecules, and ...