hair follicles

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• Hair transplantation — is a surgical technique that involves moving skin containing hair follicles from one part of the body (the donor site) to bald or balding parts (the recipient site). It is primarily used to treat male pattern baldness, whereby grafts containing… …   Wikipedia

• Hair care — is an overall term for parts of hygiene and cosmetology involving the hair on the human head. Hair care will differ according to one s hair type and according to various processes that can be applied to hair. All hair is not the same; indeed,… …   Wikipedia

• hair transplantation — hair transplant or hair transplantation, the surgical procedure of removing plugs of hair follicles from the sides and back of a person s head and grafting them into bald or sparse spots on top of the head. See also hair implant. (Cf. ↑hair… …   Useful english dictionary

• hair transplant — hair′ trans plant n. srg the surgical transfer of clumps of skin with hair or of viable hair follicles to a bald area of the scalp …   From formal English to slang

• Hair — For other uses, see Hair (disambiguation). Hairy redirects here. For individuals nicknamed the Hairy , see List of people known as the Hairy. Hair Cross section of a hair Latin unguis …   Wikipedia

• Hair follicle — A hair follicle is part of the skin that grows hair by packing old cells together. Attached to the follicle is a sebaceous gland, a tiny sebum producing gland found everywhere except on the palms, lips and soles of the feet. The thicker density… …   Wikipedia

• Hair, exclamation point — Exclamation point hair is a key diagnostic finding in a disorder called alopecia areata. Alopecia areata is patchy baldness (alopecia means baldness and areata means occurring in patches) which typically begins with patchy hair loss on the scalp… …   Medical dictionary

• hair transplant — the surgical transfer of clumps of skin with hair or of viable hair follicles from one site of the body to another, usually performed to correct baldness. Cf. hair implant. [1970 75] * * * hair transplant or hair transplantation, the surgical… …   Useful english dictionary

• hair — hairlike, adj. /hair/, n. 1. any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus. 2. an aggregate of such filaments, as that covering the human head or forming the coat of most… …   Universalium

• Hair, lanugal — The downy hair on the body of the fetus and newborn baby. The lanugal hair (or lanugo) is the first hair to be produced by the fetal hair follicles. It is very fine, soft and usually is unpigmented. The lanugal hair is prenatal hair. It appears… …   Medical dictionary

• hair transplant — the surgical transfer of clumps of skin with hair or of viable hair follicles from one site of the body to another, usually performed to correct baldness. Cf. hair implant. [1970 75] * * * …   Universalium