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HAIR FOLLICLE
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I. (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:
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 mesenchymal neoplasm arising from the pilar sheath of the hair follicle.
(Pilar-Associated Mesenchyme Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign neoplasm characterized by the presence of spindle-shaped fibroblasts surrounding the hair follicle.
(Perifollicular Fibroma, NCI Thesaurus)
An inherited condition in which benign tumors develop in hair follicles on the head, chest, back, and arms.
(Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome, NCI Dictionary)
An alteration in the normal structure of the hair follicle relative to normal for a specific age, mouse strain, and skin site.
(Disorders of the Mouse Hair Follicle, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
A neoplasm that arises from the hair follicle and does not metastasize to other anatomic sites.
(Benign Hair Follicle Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
Clonal proliferations arising from cutaneous hair follicles composed in part of cells with basaloid cytology.
(Basaloid Follicular Neoplasm of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
A benign neoplasm that arises from the hair follicle.
(Benign Hair Follicle Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
A benign mesenchymal neoplasm arising from the pilar sheath of the hair follicle.
(Benign Pilar-Associated Mesenchyme Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)
A carcinoma arising from the sebaceous glands, sweat glands, or the hair follicles.
(Adnexal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A malignant epithelial neoplasm arising from sebaceous or sweat glands or from hair follicles.
(Adnexal Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
