(a.) Having the quality or power of removing hair.
(n.) An application used to take off hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Waxing and depilatories were used by less than 6 percent of patients on the face and by about 20 percent on other parts of the body.
(2) It was concluded that if hair has to be removed a depilatory is the agent of choice.
(3) Management includes cessation of shaving, the use of depilatories or topical antibiotics and modification of shaving techniques.
(4) In addition, the depilatory agent proved bactericidal against 3 pathogenic strains (S. aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and E. coli).
(5) The agent was suspected to be Magic Shave, a chemical depilatory powder containing calcium hydroxide as the active ingredient.
(6) Five female patients with this complication had successful removal of the excessive hair with a calcium thioglycolate depilatory agent.
(7) The latter consisted in a limited exeresis of the portals and in the extraction of the hairs with a brush, followed in principle by a weekly depilatory treatment until the wound was closed.
(8) The depilatory was expensive and may cause sensitivity reactions in a few individuals, but was found to be the easiest and most efficient method of removing hair.
(9) The greatest increase in blood flow rates occurred in woolled skin (+500%) during mEGF infusion, a result which in itself may have been disparate with the known depilatory effects of EGF.
(10) The use of a depilatory cream as an alternative to a razor would seem to have the advantages of increasing patient comfort; of avoiding injuries inflicted by even skilful shaving; and perhaps of diminishing the incidence of wound infection, without significant risk of reaction to the depilatory.
(11) Lotion depilatories, or hair clippers, combined with routine lifting of ingrown hairs, are the most effective treatments, although complete cessation of shaving is first required.
(12) The clinical and histological signs of the disease were similar to those seen experimentally when corticosteroids are used as chemical depilatory agents.
(13) The majority of patients with hirsuties may be adequately managed with a careful explanation of their condition and advice about depilatory techniques.
(14) This study compares the efficiency, safety and cost of hair removal before surgery, with a safety razor, an electric clipper and a depilatory.
(15) The importance of this model to hair follicle biology is further demonstrated by the observations that TGF-beta 1 has a negative growth regulatory effect on hair follicles in vitro and that EGF and its other receptor ligand TGF-alpha mimic the in vivo depilatory effects of EGF that have been reported for sheep and mice.
(16) For a one year period, hair was removed from the operative site with clippers rather than by shaving with a razor or by application of depilatories.
(17) Preparation of skin with a chemical depilatory agent causes no increase in skin microflora, in contrast to the effects of shaving as demonstrated by earlier studies.
(18) Measurements were made preinfusion and at +3, +12, +24, +27 and +48 h. We wished to assess relationships between blood flow rates and known functional changes in various organs during EGF treatment, especially any relationship between skin blood flow rate and the known depilatory effects of the protein in sheep.
(19) These results suggest that, in rams, depilatory doses of mouse EGF temporarily impair gonadotrophin and androgen secretion by inhibiting LHRH release from the hypothalamus.
(20) From an examination of (1) psychological and social stresses documented by the medical profession of women with amounts of hair departing from what is considered to be the "feminine" distribution of hair (idiopathic hirsutism), (2) biomedical information about male and female hair growth and distribution, (3) definitional influences of society, and (4) instrumental maneuverings of depilatory industries, this paper offers insights about the alteration of natural female facial and body hair to conform to a social construct of gender status.
Hair
Definition:
(n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
(n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
(n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
(n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
(n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
(n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
(n.) A haircloth.
(n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(2) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(3) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
(4) White hair bulbs which demonstrated no TH activity formed 2SCD, but not 5SCD.
(5) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
(6) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
(7) Bone age has been analyzed mixed-longitudinally in a subsample of 370 patients (660 observations) and showed a slight retardation at all ages between 6 and 13 yr. Development of pubic hair of 91 subjects analyzed cross-sectionally was definitely retarded when compared to adequate reference data.
(8) Tumors were induced in athymic, T-cell-deficient nude mice and in syngeneic normal haired mice by treatment with low doses of 3-methylcholantrene (MCA).
(9) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
(10) A new method of staining the keratin filament matrix allowing a visualization of the filaments in cross section of hair fibres has been developed.
(11) However, in subjects with alopecia there was no such difference and the growth rate of all the hairs showed a continuous distribution.
(12) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(13) After 7 days, various stages of sensory hair degeneration could be observed.
(14) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
(15) Subungual hair penetration appears to be much less common.
(16) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(17) Of four normal tissues assessed, two (hair follicles and tissues responsible for development of leg contractures) showed no change in radioresponse after treatment with indomethacin, one (hematopoietic tissue) exhibited radioprotection, and one (jejunum) exhibited slight radiosensitization (enhancement factor, 1.12).
(18) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
(19) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
(20) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.