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 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 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 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 apocrine sweat glands that produce a waxy secretion called cerumen. 100x

Ceruminous glands are modified apocrine sweat glands that open onto the skin surface directly or into the hair follicles along with the sebum from sebaceous glands. Secretions from both ceruminous and sebaceous glands form a waxy material, called cerumen (earwax) that provides, protection, lubrication, self-cleansing and acts as a deterrent for microbial growth in the ear canal.