Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Anatomy A small bodily cavity or sac.
- n. Anatomy A crypt or minute cul-de-sac or lacuna, such as the depression in the skin from which the hair emerges.
- n. Anatomy An ovarian follicle.
- n. Anatomy A spherical mass of cells usually containing a cavity.
- n. Botany A dry, single-chambered fruit that splits along only one seam to release its seeds, as in larkspur and milkweed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany: A dry one-celled seed-vessel consisting of a single carpel, and dehiscent only by the ventral suture, as in the milkweed and larkspur.
- n. Any bladder-shaped appendage; a utricle.
- n. In anatomy and zoology, a minute secretory or excretory cavity, sac, or tube; one of the ultimate blind ramifications of a secretory surface; a glandular cul-de-sac; a mucous crypt or lacuna; a minute nodule of lymphoid tissue. A sebaceous follicle is a gland of the skin secreting a greasy substance; a gastric follicle is one of the glandular tubes of the mucous membrane of the stomach secreting gastric juice; an intestinal follicle is one of the secretory mucous crypts of the intestines; a Graafian follicle is a little sac in an ovary in which an ovum matures. The solitary and agminate glands, glands of Brunner, Peyer's patches, crypts of Lieberkühn, etc., are all follicles or aggregations of follicles. The term is sometimes extended to a cluster of follicles, thus being made synonymous with gland.
- n. In entomology, a cocoon; the covering made by a larva for its protection during the pupa state.
Wiktionary
- n. anatomy A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
- n. botany A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
- n. A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac.
- n. A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
- n. A small mass of adenoid tissue.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity
Etymologies
- From Latin folliculus. (Wiktionary)
- Latin folliculus, little bag, diminutive of follis, bellows; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Once the follicle is heavily damaged or destroyed, it no longer has the ability to grow hair.”
“Another accessory organ of the integument associated with the hair follicle is the sebaceous gland.”
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“The hair-growth cycle consists of growth, regression (the hair falls out, destroying the lower part of the follicle), rest (the follicle is dormant), and re-initiation of growth (the follicle repairs itself and grows a new hair).”
“An older, commonly used egg-supply marker known as follicle-stimulating hormone, or FSH, also measured through a blood test, can be taken only on days two, three or four of a menstrual cycle, may be affected by birth-control pills, and has greater variability.”
“As the child nears puberty, a gland in the brain called the pituitary gland increases the secretion of a hormone called follicle-stimulating hormone FSH.”
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“It is therefore called the follicle-stimulating hormone, usually abbrevi - ated FSH.”
“= Each primitive or primordial ovum [3] is imbedded in a little vesicle or follicle, which is generally known as”
“The structure of the hair is very beautiful, and each hair is contained in a delicate sheath which fits into a slight depression in the skin called the follicle, and around the base of the hair nature has provided glands to secrete oily matter, the purpose of which is to keep the hair glossy.”
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“The stem cells develop into specialized cells, called follicle cells, over a series of nine generations of cell divisions.”
“A follicle is a somewhat tubular structure made mostly of dermal tissues.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘follicle’.
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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Pickle and such
Words that end like pickle. Listed here because they're funny (because they end like pickle).
pickle, sparkle, yokel, tinkle, fickle, prickle, trickle, circle, snorkel, ensnorkel, chuckle, buckle and 137 more...
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misc. plant morphology
the concise british flora in colour (w. keble martin) - glossary - edited, and to be added to
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elizacole's Words
isomorphic, endemic, tmesis, fillip, antedate, avoirdupois, jeremiad, hypnagogic, antediluvian, fuck, reification, raconteur and 251 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
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stpeter's Words
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hairstyles
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Give Me a Head With Hair
blonde, brunette, ginger, titian, redhead, follicle, afro, mullet, dandruff, pomade, bouffant, dreadlocks and 16 more...
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rwkasten's Words
antibody, ossify, oeuvre, emotive, oblong, ululate, amoeba, aeon, outre, perfidy, venal, verity and 55 more...
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herrherr's list
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the hate list
words that give me the heebidie jeebidies
suffragette, get 'er done, fringe, causeway, twee, jumper, tgif, actually, syringe, seltzer, raisin, whited sepulchre and 72 more...
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elcheef's Words
erisian, marijuana, flinch, zen, anarchy, utopian, bauxite, marshmallow, vichyssoise, tryptamine, chocolate, coffee and 15 more...
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live thriving words
IE roots of bhel- and a few others
bless, blossom, foil, foliage, folio, folium, cinquefoil, defoliate, exfoliate, feuilleton, perfoliate, milfoil and 67 more...
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