HAIR FOLLICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hair follicle mean? 

• HAIR FOLLICLE (noun)
  The noun HAIR FOLLICLE has 1 sense:

1. a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair; small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them

  Familiarity information: HAIR FOLLICLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAIR FOLLICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair; small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("hair follicle" is a kind of...):

follicle (any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity)

Meronyms (parts of "hair follicle"):

glandulae sebaceae; sebaceous follicle; sebaceous gland (a cutaneous gland that secretes sebum (usually into a hair follicle) for lubricating hair and skin)

 Context examples 

A cutaneous myxoma arising from the hair follicle.

(Follicular Myxoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Clonal proliferations arising from cutaneous hair follicles.

(Follicular Neoplasms of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A severe, chronic fungal skin infection, usually of the scalp, characterized by the development of thick, yellow cup-shaped crusts and scarring over hair follicles.

(Favus, NCI Thesaurus)

It is toxic to hair follicles, gastro-intestinal tract, and vasculature.

(Etoglucid, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Dihydrotestosterone is synthesized from testosterone in the prostate gland, testes, hair follicles and adrenal glands by 5-alpha reductase.

(Dihydrotestosterone, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of a follicle (a sac or pouch-like cavity), usually a hair follicle.

(Folliculitis, NCI Dictionary)

A rare variant of mycosis fungoides, characterized by cerebriform lymphocytic infiltration of the hair follicles of the head and neck.

(Folliculotropic Mycosis Fungoides, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, it displays differentiation towards the matrix and inner sheath of the normal hair follicle and the hair cortex.

(Pilomatricoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Clonal proliferations arising from cutaneous hair follicles composed in part of cells with basaloid cytology that resemble human pilomatrixomas.

(Pilomatrixoma Type of Basaloid Follicular Neoplasm of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A very rare, locally aggressive, malignant neoplasm of the hair follicle.

(Pilomatrical Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)