(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.
Shampoo
Definition:
(v. t.) To press or knead the whole surface of the body of (a person), and at the same time to stretch the limbs and joints, in connection with the hot bath.
(v. t.) To wash throughly and rub the head of (a person), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing.
(n.) The act of shampooing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-five children were treated with a phenothrin liquid shampoo and 25 with a carbaryl shampoo.
(2) Significantly greater and earlier reductions in both degree of scaling and corneocyte counts were seen in subjects treated with the formula containing both sulfur 2 percent and salicylic acid 2 percent in the shampoo base than in those who received either active ingredient alone or the shampoo vehicle.
(3) Recommendations are made to use "Aminookis" (AO) in shampoos to 8%, deodorizing agent in deodorants to 2% and "Hyaluron" in creams to 20% (as trade products).
(4) Baby shampoo was non-stimulatory over the applied concentration range.
(5) And while Pantene got on the feminism bandwagon last year with a commercial about double standards launched in the Philippines, let us not forget their ad in Brazil that used a tremendously large breasted woman to hawk shampoo.
(6) The etiology of Kawasaki syndrome remains unestablished, although a possible role has been suggested for exposure to the application of carpet shampoo, house dust mites, and rickettsial infection.
(7) Twelve healthy volunteers were studied before and after shampooing their hair daily for 4 days with the CCT-containing shampoo.
(8) A concentration series, (0.005 to 10% solution in saline), of various potential irritants (phosphate detergent, baby shampoo, liquid chlorine bleach, herbal shampoo, onion juice, SDS, and sodium chloride) was applied directly to the cornea of the anesthetized rabbit.
(9) When asked what advice she had given the younger actors who were newcomers to the Star Wars franchise she replied: “Don’t go through the crew like wildfire.” Another questioner asked what were the strangest Star Wars merchandising items they had seen, and Fisher said: “Shampoo bottle, because you can twist off your head” – before pointing out a Princess Leia strain of marijuana was available.
(10) The results indicate that both products are effective in the treatment of head lice infection and that the phenothrin shampoo would be a useful addition to the insecticides currently employed.
(11) Harrison Ford (Han Solo) had had a small part in George Lucas's American Grafitti, but was working as a carpenter when he was cast as the sardonic space smuggler, and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) had appeared briefly in the 1975 Warren Beatty comedy Shampoo.
(12) The price-fixing affected a large number of popular brands, such as Vanish stain remover, Palmolive washing-up liquid, Sun and Calgonit dishwasher tablets, Sanex and Petit Marseillais shower gel, shampoos including Head & Shoulders, Fructis and Elsève, and Colgate and Signal toothpaste.
(13) Prevention of shunt infections in this high-risk group could be facilitated by the reduction of skin bacterial density before surgery using chlorhexidine shampoos and by the elimination of contamination by skin bacteria during surgery using packs soaked in an antiseptic agent to isolate wound edges and glove-changing before handling the shunt.
(14) Less important items were Transporting patients(3.411), Changing linens(3.442), Giving a bed shampoo (3.506).
(15) Thirty-six patients with seborrhoeic dermatitis of the scalp and culture positive for Pityrosporum ovale were treated in a double-blind placebo controlled study with ketoconazole shampoo twice weekly for 4 weeks.
(16) Hexachlorophane baths daily, chlorhexidine shampoo once daily for a week, and were taken off duty from wards for one day.
(17) The efficacy of 1% ketoconazole shampoo in the treatment of dandruff was tested in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with 176 patients.
(18) Clinical dandruff gradings of each half of the head were made 4 days after the last shampoo in each group, when scalp biopsy samples were also taken from each half of the head.
(19) It has successfully attracted consumers to the cause not by preaching to them, but by showing how the new packaging lets them use every last drop of shampoo in the shower, minimizing waste by changing consumer behavior.
(20) Hello Robin Thicke ; look at an ad where a woman has an orgasm because of a shampoo; watch reality TV.