External ear: External auditory meatus

The thin skin lining the external meatus possesses hair follicles with large sebaceous glands. Also present are ceruminous glands, specialized coiled, tubular, apocrine sweat glands, that produce a waxy secretion called cerumen. 100x

The thin skin lining the external meatus possesses hair follicles with large sebaceous glands. Also present are ceruminous glands, specialized coiled, tubular, apocrine sweat glands, that produce a waxy secretion called cerumen. 100x

The thin skin lining the external meatus possesses hair follicles with large sebaceous glands. Also present are ceruminous glands, specialized coiled, tubular, apocrine sweat glands, that produce a waxy secretion called cerumen. 100x

The thin skin lining the external meatus possesses hair follicles with large sebaceous glands. Also present are ceruminous glands, specialized coiled, tubular, apocrine sweat glands, that produce a waxy secretion called cerumen. 100x

Ceruminous glands are modified coiled tubular (apocrine) sweat glands that open onto the skin surface directly or into the hair follicles, as do the sebaceous glands. Secretions from both ceruminous and sebaceous glands create a golden-brown waxy material, called cerumen that, presumably, is offensive to insects.