Usually means: Origin and growth site of hair.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word hair follicle:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. hair follicle: Merriam-Webster
  2. hair follicle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hair follicle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hair follicle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hair follicle: Vocabulary.com
  6. hair-follicle: Wordnik
  7. Hair follicle: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. hair follicle: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. hair follicle: Dictionary.com
  10. Hair follicle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. hair follicle: Rhymezone
  12. hair follicle: FreeDictionary.org
  13. hair follicle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. hair follicle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. hair follicle: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hair follicle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. hair follicle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Follicle, hair, Hair follicle: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. hair follicle: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. hair follicle: Medical dictionary
  9. Follicle, hair, Hair follicle: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hair follicle)

▸ noun:  (anatomy, dermatology) An organ found in mammalian skin, residing in the dermal layer of the skin.

Similar:
ear hair, epiderm, hypodermis, derma, haarscheibe, dermis, sweat gland, organ of Corti, stratum granulosum, sweat pore, more...

Phrases:
hair follicle nevus, hair follicle unit, more...

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Similar:
ear hair, epiderm, hypodermis, derma, haarscheibe, dermis, sweat gland, organ of Corti, stratum granulosum, sweat pore, more...

Phrases:
hair follicle nevus, hair follicle unit, more...



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