A tube-like opening in the epidermis where the hair shaft develops and into which the sebaceous glands open[GO]. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_follicle ]
This is just here as a test because I lose it
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- NCIT:C13317
- MA:0000154
- VHOG:0001268
- MESH:D018859
- EMAPA:18771
- Wikipedia:Hair_follicle
- EV:0100156
- CALOHA:TS-0432
- EMAPA:29741
- EFO:0002464
- GAID:934
- SCTID:280830006
- FMA:70660
- BTO:0000554
Subsets
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, organ_slim, human_reference_atlas
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Development notes:Formation largely takes place during fetal and perinatal skin development. However, after skin wounding de novo hair follicle formation may also occur in adult mouse and rabbit skin[DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.005].
Term relations
Subclass of:
- skin appendage follicle
- part of some skin epidermis
- overlaps some strand of hair
- part of some pilosebaceous unit
- develops from some hair follicle placode