Hair Follicle

Definition: Hair Follicle

Hair Follicle

Noun

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

Crosswords: Hair Follicle

English words defined with "hair follicle": folliculitis ♦ glandulae sebaceae ♦ ingrown hair ♦ pilosebaceous ♦ sebaceous follicle, sebaceous gland. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hair follicle": Apocrine Glands ♦ electric-needle specialist, electrolysis operator ♦ hypertrichologist. (references)

Top

Commercial Usage: Hair Follicle

Domain	Title
Books	Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Skin: The Hair Follicle (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hair Follicle

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hair follicle	44
drug testing hair follicle	40
hair follicle test	38
hair follicle drug test	37
infected hair follicle	28
hair follicle testing	25
hair follicle infection	17
ingrown hair follicle	5
hair follicle picture	4
hair follicle shampoo	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top

Modern Translations: Hair Follicle

Language		Translations for "hair follicle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		haarsaek, hårfollikel. (various references)

Dutch		haarzakjes, haarzak, haarfollikels, haarfollikel (hair sheaths), folliculus pili (hair sheaths), folliculi pili. (various references)

French		follicule pileux, follicule. (various references)

German		haarbalg. (various references)

Greek		τριχώδες λεμφοξίδιο, θύλακος της τριχός. (various references)

Italian		follicolo (crypt, crypta, follicle). (various references)

Pig Latin		airhay olliclefay.(various references)

Portuguese		folículos pilosos, folículo capilar. (various references)

Spanish		folículo piloso. (various references)

Swedish		hårsäck. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top

Anagrams: Hair Follicle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-h-i-i-l-l-l-o-r"
	-3 letters: chlorella.
	-4 letters: chillier, firehall, follicle, heroical, rocaille.
	-5 letters: airfoil, airhole, allelic, calorie, cariole, challie, charlie, chiller, chloral, cholera, chorale, choreal, chorial, coalier, collier, filcher, helical, hillier, icefall, lochial, loricae, ocellar, orifice.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.