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Follicle   Listen
noun
Follicle  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.
2.
(Anat.)
(a)
A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle.
(b)
A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.
(c)
A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.





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"Follicle" Quotes from Famous Books



... have seen that with animals the hairs are erected by the contraction of minute, unstriped, and involuntary muscles, which run to each separate follicle. In addition to this action, Mr. J. Wood has clearly ascertained by experiment, as he informs me, that with man the hairs on the front of the head which slope forwards, and those on the back which slope backwards, are raised in ...
— The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals • Charles Darwin
... electrodes, one of which is inserted in the tissue and a current passed by completing the circuit through the tissue so as to electrolyze or decompose the fluids of the tissue. It is applied in the removal of hair or extirpation of the follicle. The process is not one of heating, ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone


Words linked to "Follicle" :   hair follicle, nabothian follicle, vesicle, sebaceous follicle, follicular, Graafian follicle, cyst


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