Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tubular depression of the skin from the bottom of which a hair grows.
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Examples
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The BioWash is an "herbal cleansing shampoo" to be used in preparation for hair-follicle drug tests.
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The BioWash is an "herbal cleansing shampoo" to be used in preparation for hair-follicle drug tests.
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That part of the hair lying within the hair-follicle is called the root.
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Each hair-follicle, hair-sac, or hair-pit, as it is variously termed, bulges out at its deeper part, contracting to
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Mongolian peoples and of the various tribes of American Indians, in whom the hair possesses these peculiarities because each element grows as a nearly perfect cylinder from the cells of the skin at the bottom of a tiny pit or hair-follicle.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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That part of the hair lying within the hair-follicle is called the root.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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This depression takes the form of a sac and is called the hair-follicle, in which the roots of the hair are embedded.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Each hair-follicle, hair-sac, or hair-pit, as it is variously termed, bulges out at its deeper part, contracting to a long narrow neck as it passes to its skin.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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A, membrane of the hair-follicle, cells with nuclei and pigmentary granules;
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Opening into each hair-follicle are usually one or more sebaceous, or oil, glands.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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