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Tiny cavity whence a hair grows
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follicle
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN hair ▪ Scalp stimulants can help to revitalise dormant hair follicles by increasing the blood flow to the scalp. ▪ When melanin stops being fed into hair follicles altogether, any new hair grows in white. ▪ They are ...
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A follicle is a small spherical or vase-like group of cells containing a cavity in which some other structure grows. Follicles are best known as the sockets from which hairs grow in humans and other mammals , but the bristles of annelid worms also grow ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle. 2 (context botany English) A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.
Usage examples of follicle.
The divaricated follicles of their coats provide good insulation, with a layer of trapped air next to the skin.
The latter are clusters of round follicles opening into a common excretory duct.
These glands consist of numerous follicles, grouped around an excretory duct, which unites with similar ducts coming from other lobules.
The follicles remaining in the ovaries of a perimenopausal woman are generally less sensitive to stimulation by FSH than the ones that preceded them.
The saliva is composed of four elementary secretions, derived respectively, from the mucous follicles of the mouth, and the parotid, the submaxillary, and the sublingual glands.
These glands consist of numerous follicles, grouped around an excretory duct, which unites with similar ducts coming from other lobules.
Zacchias, Amand, Fabricius Hildanus, Graaf, the discoverer of the follicles that bear his name, Borellus, Blegny, Blanchard, Diemerbroeck, Duddell, Mauriceau, a Reyes, Riolan, Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, Wolfius, Walther, Rongier, Ruysch, Forestus, Ephemerides, and Schurig all mention cases of conception with intact hymen, and in which there was no entrance of the penis.
One of these gonadotrophins has as a noticeable effect the stimulation of the growth of the follicles of the ovary, preparing them for the production of egg cells.
There were plastic strips that she stuck on and peeled off, grubbing up numerous pluglike impurities from her follicles and pores.
The quantity of hair varies according to the proximity and condition of the follicles.
I insert a needle attached to a transvaginal probe into the ovaries and puncture each of the mature follicles.
The follicle stimulator had given him a bushy growth in the style on a native Archarian.
The needle has a suction tip that aspirates the egg from the follicle into a tube attached to the needle.
Naomi, anesthetized, had been oblivious to what was going on around her, and Lisa had quickly forgotten about him as she concentrated on the ultrasound images that guided her in aspirating the eggs from Naomi's follicles into test tubes.
It is quite possible that chromopsychosis could reach the fatal level by inducing hypertrophy of the trinitarian follicles with consequent cerebric catatonia.