loading...| Preferred Name |
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folliculus pili |
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| Definitions |
Development notes:Formation largely takes place during fetal and perinatal skin development. However, after skin wounding de novo hair follicle formation may also occur in adult mouse and rabbit skin[DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.005]. A tube-like opening in the epidermis where the hair shaft develops and into which the sebaceous glands open[GO]. |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002073 |
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Development notes:Formation largely takes place during fetal and perinatal skin development. However, after skin wounding de novo hair follicle formation may also occur in adult mouse and rabbit skin[DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.005]. |
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UMLS:C0221971 EMAPA:18771 Wikipedia:Hair_follicle EMAPA:29741 BTO:0000554 MESH:D018859 CALOHA:TS-0432 SCTID:280830006 VHOG:0001268 NCIT:C13317 EFO:0002464 EV:0100156 FMA:70660 GAID:934 MA:0000154 |
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| definition |
A tube-like opening in the epidermis where the hair shaft develops and into which the sebaceous glands open[GO]. |
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| depiction |
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Hair_follicle-en.svg |
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uberon |
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folliculus pili |
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The earliest reliable record of hair is found in a fossil of the Paleocene period, in which the structure of hair cuticles is preserved. Its appearance suggests that the complicated structure of the hair follicle, closely similar to that of present-day mammals, had already appeared at this time.[well established][VHOG] |
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UBERON:0002073 |
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/core#human_reference_atlas http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/core#efo_slim http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/uberon/core#organ_slim |
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hair follicle |
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| notation |
UBERON:0002073 |
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