Follicle
noun
A tiny hole in the skin that a single hair grows out of.
She plucked the hair from the follicle with a pair of tweezers.
Often appears as...
- hair follicle
- follicle growth
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Technical
noun
A small secretory cavity, sac, or gland.
The thyroid follicle stores thyroid hormones.
Often appears as...
- thyroid follicle
- follicle development
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Academic
noun
A casing in an ovary that contains an egg.
She had several mature follicles ready for ovulation.
Often appears as...
- ovarian follicle
- egg follicle
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Academic
noun
A tiny hole in the skin that a single hair grows out of.
She plucked the hair from the follicle with a pair of tweezers.
Often appears as...
- hair follicle
- follicle growth
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small secretory cavity, sac, or gland.
The thyroid follicle stores thyroid hormones.
Often appears as...
- thyroid follicle
- follicle development
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A casing in an ovary that contains an egg.
She had several mature follicles ready for ovulation.
Often appears as...
- ovarian follicle
- egg follicle
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Hair Growth
Indicates where hair originates in skin. Remember it's singular when referring to one hair.
Every individual hair grows from its own follicle.
Pro Tip 2/3Skincare Context
Often used in beauty and skincare topics, especially when discussing pores and hair removal.
This cream claims to nourish the skin down to the follicles.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible to Eye
While tiny, some follicles are visible as small dots on the skin, especially on the face and scalp.
You can see the hair follicles on his scalp under the light.
Pro Tip 1/3Hair Growth
Indicates where hair originates in skin. Remember it's singular when referring to one hair.
Every individual hair grows from its own follicle.
Pro Tip 2/3Skincare Context
Often used in beauty and skincare topics, especially when discussing pores and hair removal.
This cream claims to nourish the skin down to the follicles.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible to Eye
While tiny, some follicles are visible as small dots on the skin, especially on the face and scalp.
You can see the hair follicles on his scalp under the light.
Pro Tip 1/3Hair Growth
Indicates where hair originates in skin. Remember it's singular when referring to one hair.
Every individual hair grows from its own follicle.
Pro Tip 2/3Skincare Context
Often used in beauty and skincare topics, especially when discussing pores and hair removal.
This cream claims to nourish the skin down to the follicles.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible to Eye
While tiny, some follicles are visible as small dots on the skin, especially on the face and scalp.
You can see the hair follicles on his scalp under the light.
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How does the thyroid...
It does that by using hormones to deliver messages to every single one of them. This high-ranking organ is made up of lobules that each contains smaller cells called follicles, which store the hormones the thyroid sends out into your blood. Two of the most important hormones it produces
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Why do we have hair in...
filaments of the protein keratin that grow out of organs known as follicles, which go through cycles of growth and shedding. Across mammalian species, hairs have been modified for numerous purposes, ranging from the soft fluff covering rabbits to the rigid quills protecting porcupines.
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How does chemotherapy...
such as strong anti-nausea medications. For hair loss, devices called cold caps can help lower the temperature around the head and constrict blood vessels, limiting the amount of chemotherapy drugs that reach hair follicles. And once a course of chemo treatment is over,
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How menstruation works -...
Each month beginning around puberty, the hormone-producing pituitary gland in the brain starts releasing two substances into the follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. When they reach the ovaries, they encourage the internal egg cells to grow and mature.
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What causes dandruff,...
Follicles, the tiny cavities that grow hairs all over our body, make for especially popular living quarters. Malassezia are fond of these hideouts because they contain glands that secrete an oil called sebum that’s thought to lubricate and strengthen our hair.
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Why do some people go...
the activity of these cells to encourage follicles to start producing hair again. And in the meantime, while scientists hone their hair-reviving methods, anyone going bald, or considering baldness, can remember that they're in great company.
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The way we think about...
Nothing. It literally, most likely, just means that their hair follicles respond to testosterone in different ways. Yet, how many times have you heard a man ashamed about something like this? Imagine a world where we could live in a society
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How in vitro fertilizatio...
As it grows and continues to release estrogen, this hormone not only helps coordinate growth and preparation of the uterus, it also communicates to the brain how well the follicle is developing. When the estrogen level is high enough,
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How An Egg Becomes A...
plummeting these penguins have journeyed here to find a partner and to mate now inside the female's body another journey starts here in her ovary the largest of a cluster of follicles as reached
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Are Mites Having Sex on...
into hair follicles and into the pores there could be hundreds of thousands or even millions in the individual person we don't really know we know that
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How does the thyroid...
It does that by using hormones to deliver messages to every single one of them. This high-ranking organ is made up of lobules that each contains smaller cells called follicles, which store the hormones the thyroid sends out into your blood. Two of the most important hormones it produces
Video examples
Why do we have hair in...
filaments of the protein keratin that grow out of organs known as follicles, which go through cycles of growth and shedding. Across mammalian species, hairs have been modified for numerous purposes, ranging from the soft fluff covering rabbits to the rigid quills protecting porcupines.
Video examples
How does chemotherapy...
such as strong anti-nausea medications. For hair loss, devices called cold caps can help lower the temperature around the head and constrict blood vessels, limiting the amount of chemotherapy drugs that reach hair follicles. And once a course of chemo treatment is over,
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How menstruation works -...
Each month beginning around puberty, the hormone-producing pituitary gland in the brain starts releasing two substances into the follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone. When they reach the ovaries, they encourage the internal egg cells to grow and mature.
Video examples
What causes dandruff,...
Follicles, the tiny cavities that grow hairs all over our body, make for especially popular living quarters. Malassezia are fond of these hideouts because they contain glands that secrete an oil called sebum that’s thought to lubricate and strengthen our hair.
Video examples
Why do some people go...
the activity of these cells to encourage follicles to start producing hair again. And in the meantime, while scientists hone their hair-reviving methods, anyone going bald, or considering baldness, can remember that they're in great company.
Video examples
The way we think about...
Nothing. It literally, most likely, just means that their hair follicles respond to testosterone in different ways. Yet, how many times have you heard a man ashamed about something like this? Imagine a world where we could live in a society
Video examples
How in vitro fertilizatio...
As it grows and continues to release estrogen, this hormone not only helps coordinate growth and preparation of the uterus, it also communicates to the brain how well the follicle is developing. When the estrogen level is high enough,
Video examples
How An Egg Becomes A...
plummeting these penguins have journeyed here to find a partner and to mate now inside the female's body another journey starts here in her ovary the largest of a cluster of follicles as reached
Video examples
Are Mites Having Sex on...
into hair follicles and into the pores there could be hundreds of thousands or even millions in the individual person we don't really know we know that
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Kiki Smith
American Artist
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
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Anthony Carrigan
American Actor
I have alopecia. That's an autoimmune condition. I don't like to say disease because I don't feel like I'm diseased. So it's a condition. And it's like your immune system is confused. So it attacks the hair follicles, and so your hair falls out.
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Mark Hyman
American Author
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.
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Joe Buck
American Celebrity
You'd be a masochist or a lunatic to be addicted to getting live hair follicles ripped out of the back of your head and surgically implanted into the front of your head.
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Cobie Smulders
Canadian Actress
Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
English Actor
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Kiki Smith
American Artist
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
Quote examples
Anthony Carrigan
American Actor
I have alopecia. That's an autoimmune condition. I don't like to say disease because I don't feel like I'm diseased. So it's a condition. And it's like your immune system is confused. So it attacks the hair follicles, and so your hair falls out.
Quote examples
Mark Hyman
American Author
Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.
Quote examples
Joe Buck
American Celebrity
You'd be a masochist or a lunatic to be addicted to getting live hair follicles ripped out of the back of your head and surgically implanted into the front of your head.
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Cobie Smulders
Canadian Actress
Just when your ovaries should be brimming with youthful follicles, cancerous cells overtook mine, threatening to end my fertility and potentially my life.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
English Actor
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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