Author: Glossary

Inversion of one or more eyelashes.  

A hairy nodule on the hair; seen in piedra.  

The sensation felt when a hair is touched.  

A benign skin tumor originating in the hair follicles.  

A genus of lice that infests dogs and sheep. Some are the intermediate hosts of tapeworms.  

A cell structure derived from cytoplasm.  

A benign tumor of the outer root sheath epithelium of a hair follicle.  

Pain caused by touching or moving the hair.  

The thickness of the skin including subcutaneous fat as measured on the skin over the triceps muscle of the arm. Comparison of the value obtained from a patient to standard values helps to provide an estimate of body fat. It is used in assessing and documenting both malnutrition and obesity.  

A compound having three atoms of bromine in the molecule.