What's the difference between hairy and piliferous?

Hairy


Definition:

  • (a.) Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

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  • (1) I'm really glad Voiceover told me they were the Hairy Bikers or I wouldn't have realised.
  • (2) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
  • (3) The high levels of circulating progenitor cells in ALL and CLL patients clearly distinguish them from other cytopenic hematological malignancies, in which decreased progenitor cell levels have been demonstrated previously (acute myeloid leukemia, hairy cell leukemia).
  • (4) We present the histological criteria essential for the diagnosis of early Kaposi's sarcoma, its differential diagnosis including epithelioid angiomatosis, as well as the diagnosis of oral hairy leucoplakia.
  • (5) We report a patient with a hyperpigmented, non-hairy plaque on the forearm.
  • (6) Furthermore, sensitized C polymodal nociceptors can contribute to hyperalgesia after a mild heat injury to hairy skin.
  • (7) The activities of acid phosphatases (AP) were measured in leukocytes from patients with chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML), macrophages, granulocytes, in the fractionated mononuclear cells of patients with CML and with hairy-cell-leukemia (HCL) and in the cells from patients with acute leukemia (AL).
  • (8) Many of the rosetting cells were shown to be typical morphologic hairy cells by light and electron microscopy.
  • (9) The therapy of choice for oral hairy leucoplakia in HIV-infected patients is treatment with acyclovir.
  • (10) In this study we provide evidence that the sera of patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL) contain a factor that can prevent the binding of a monoclonal antibody specific for interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) to its target.
  • (11) However, no bile duct reactivity was observed in sera from carcinoid or hairy-cell leukaemia in patients given recombinant IFN-alpha.
  • (12) We have investigated two cases of oral hairy leukoplakia with the goal of detecting EBV and HPV by using both in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry.
  • (13) The skin taking extends over the insertion of the muscle up to the beginning of the hairy part.
  • (14) Teased-fiber techniques were used to record from 28 CMHs that innervated the hairy skin of upper or lower limb in anesthetized monkeys.
  • (15) dCF is the most effective single agent in the treatment of hairy cell leukemia, inducing a high percentage of CRs in all subgroups.
  • (16) We suggest that in hairy cell leukaemia both monocytopenia and defective functions of monocytes underlie the increased susceptibility to intracellular infections including Legionnaires' disease.
  • (17) In cats anaesthetized with Nembutal, the cutaneous receptive fields of individual cerebellar climbing fibres were assessed by recording the climbing fibre responses of single Purkyne cells following controlled mechanical stimulation (air jets, vibration, taps, pressure) of the foot pads of all four limbs and of the hairy skin of the limbs and the body.2.
  • (18) These somatotopically organized hairy receptive fields are unique, registering response patterns from tactile, thermal and behavioural stimuli.
  • (19) Histological examination of the splenic tissue in both cases showed changes characteristic of hairy cell leukemia.
  • (20) Furthermore, leukemic macrocheilitis has not been reported in hairy-cell leukemia.

Piliferous


Definition:

  • (a.) Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.
  • (a.) Beset with hairs.

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