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Definition: Follicle |
FollicleNoun1. Any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "follicle" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In ANATOMY, a follicle can mean a small cavity or sac. Examples include hair follicles and ovarian follicles.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Follicle."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb. |
Receptacle | Compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave; (concavity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Follicle |
| English words defined with "follicle": Conceptacle, Corpora lutea, corpus luteum ♦ follicular, folliculitis ♦ glandulae sebaceae ♦ ingrown hair ♦ Ovicapsule, Ovisac ♦ pilosebaceous ♦ sebaceous follicle, sebaceous gland. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "follicle": Apocrine Glands ♦ electric-needle specialist, electrolysis operator ♦ Follicular Atresia, Follicular Cyst, Follicular Fluid ♦ Germinal Center, Granulosa Cell Tumor, Granulosa Cells ♦ hypertrichologist ♦ Lutein Cells ♦ Proestrus ♦ serum gonadotropin ♦ Theca Cells. (references) |
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 | Illustration of a cross-section of the skin with labels indicating epidermis, dermis, sweat gland, fatty tissue, nerve follicle and oil gland. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Schistosoma mansoni schistosomulum plus an eosinophil-rich inflammatory cell infiltrate 12 hrs post exposure to normal S. mansoni cercariae. Hair follicle is a common route of infection. Histopathology, parasite. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The follicle also increases production of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone, which thicken the lining of your uterus. (references) | |
Boys may find their genitals enlarging and facial and pubic hair beginning to grow. Tumors that secrete follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), in contrast, can retard sexual development in both sexes and stunt growth. (references) | ||
During your reproductive years, the hypothalamus, a part of your brain, releases gonadotropinreleasing hormone (GnRH). This causes your pituitary gland, located at the base of the brain, to secrete luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). LH and FSH in turn stimulate the maturation of the follicles in your ovaries and the release of a new egg from its follicle each month. (references) | ||
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| "Follicle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Follicle" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "follicle": Follicle loss ♦ Graafian follicle ♦ Hair Follicle ♦ nabothian follicle ♦ Ovarian Follicle ♦ sebaceous follicle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "follicle": follicle-flowing, follicle-stimulating, follicle-stimulating hormone. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "follicle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fshikëz (bladder, cocoon, vesicle), qeskë (bladder, casing, packet, sac, sleeve), lëvozhgë (cortex, glume, husk, jacket, Peel, peeling, pod, shell, shuck), gjëndër (gland, glandule). (various references) | |
Arabic | خباء (tent), جريب كيس في الجسم, جريب كيس أو تجويف, الجريب كيس, الثمرة الجرابية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фоликул (bulb), шушулка (pod, shuck), пашкул (chrysalis, cocoon, shell). (various references) | |
Chinese | " , 葖 , 滤泡 (follicles). (various references) | |
Czech | dutina (cavity, hollow, sinus, ventricle). (various references) | |
Danish | follikel, baelg (bellow, bellows, bladder, hull, husk, pod). (various references) | |
Dutch | follikel van De Graaf (graafian follicles), follikel, folliculus, zakje (pouch, sachet), kleine holte, Graafse follikel (graafian follicles), eifollikel. (various references) | |
Finnish | tuppilo. (various references) | |
French | follicule (hair follicle). (various references) | |
German | follikel. (various references) | |
Greek | περικάρπιο (aril, capsule, pericarp, seedvessel), ωοθυλάκιο, λεμφικό θυλάκιο, λεμφοξίδιο (lymphatic follicle), αδένασ (gland), θύλακας (pouch), θύλαξ, θυλάκιον, θυλάκιο (pocket, utricle). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זקיק. (various references) | |
Hungarian | mirigy (gland, glandula, glandulae, glandule). (various references) | |
Italian | follicolo (crypt, crypta, hair follicle). (various references) | |
Korean | 여포 (follicles). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olliclefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | folículo. (various references) | |
Romanian | folicul, gogoaşã (cock and bull story, cocoon, dough-boy, doughnut, fibs), cocon (cocoon). (various references) | |
Russian | фолликул. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | folikul, mešak. (various references) | |
Spanish | folículo. (various references) | |
Swedish | follikel, baljkapsel. (various references) | |
Thai | รูขุมขน. (various references) | |
Turkish | folikül (hair follice), tek hücreli meyve, saç kökü (hair follice), bezcik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стручок (husk, pod), фолікул. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | folliculus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "follicle": follicles. (additional references) | |
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"Follicle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fellice, folicle, follical, pollicle, sollice. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "follicle" (pronounced fÄ"lukul) |
| 5 | -l u k u l | biblical. |
| 4 | -u k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, anthropological, article, barnacle, biochemical, chemical, Chronicle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, cuticle, diacritical, domical, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, geophysical, grammatical, hierarchical, hypothetical, impractical, spectacle, tentacle, maniacal, medical, meteorological, methodical, miracle, monocle, mythical, nautical, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, photochemical, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, quizzical, radical, receptacle, reciprocal, satirical, skeptical, typical, unequivocal. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, ankle, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, bifocal, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, comical, conical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, debacle, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, gonococcal, grackle, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physical, physiological, pickle, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, sickle, sociological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-l-l-l-o" | |
-2 letters: collie, ocelli. | |
-3 letters: celli, cello, fille, fillo, oleic. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cell, clef, coif, coil, cole, fell, fice, fico, file, fill, filo, flic, floc, floe, foci, foil, lice, lief, life, loci, loll. | |
-5 letters: cel, col, elf, ell, fie, fil, foe, ice, ill, lei, lie, oil, ole. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-l-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: follicles. | |
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