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SEBORRHOEA

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 568 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEBORRHOEA , a medical See also:

term applied to describe an See also:accumulation on the skin of the normal sebaceous secretion mixed with dirt and forming scales or a distinct incrustation. On the See also:head, where it is commonly seen, it may interfere with the See also:nutrition of the See also:hair and cause partial baldness. A See also:form of this disease occurs in See also:young infants. The See also:main treatment consists in thoroughly cleansing the parts. The crusts may be softened with oil and the affected skin regularly washed with soft See also:soap and rectified spirit. The sebum frequently accumulates in the sebaceous ducts, giving rise to the See also:minute See also:black points often noticed on the See also:face, back and See also:chest in young adults, to which the term comedones is applied. A form of this disorder, of larger See also:size and See also:white See also:appearance, is termed milium. These affections may to a large extent be prevented by strict See also:attention to See also:ablution and brisk See also:friction of the skin, which will also often remove them when they begin to appear. The retained secretion may be squeezed out or evacuated by incision and the skin treated with some See also:simple See also:sulphur application.

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