A pilosebaceous unit that contains a strand of vibrissa hair (a specialized tactile hair) with the follicle incorporating a blood sinus, heavily innervated by sensory nerves. [ http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6601-2165 ]

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

Subsets

pheno_slim

external ontology notes

MA has distinct classes for vibrissa and vibrissa hair - the former includes the follicle and is thus not the hair proper. We model this as the 'vibrissa unit'

id

UBERON:0011933

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606