Crossword-Solution: FOLLICLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Follicle | n. | A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed. |
| Follicle | n. | A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac; as, a hair follicle. |
| Follicle | n. | A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt. |
| Follicle | n. | A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “FOLLICLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FRUIT which consists of a single carpel and splits open along ventral suture only | 1 answer |
| HAIR-producing part of the body which decides whether ones hair is curly, straight, or wavy | 1 answer |
| Hair sac. | 1 answer |
| Root container | 1 answer |
| Skin organ that produces hair | 1 answer |
| Tiny cavity whence a hair grows | 1 answer |
| To do with hair | 1 answer |
| any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity | 1 answer |
| secretory gland | 1 answer |
| Small cavity | 2 answers |
| Hair producer | 2 answers |
| CAVITY in body | 9 answers |
| Sac | 15 answers |
| Hair piece? | 16 answers |
| Pit | 48 answers |
| Compartment | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FOLLICLE (5)
This was clearly a case of extrafollicular development and eruption of the tooth in an anomalous position, the peculiarity being that while in other similar cases the crown of the tooth shows itself at the floor of the nasal cavity from below upward, in this instance the dental follicle was transposed, the eruption being from above downward.
Usually one of the last described ducts opens directly on the side of the hair follicle, and its secretion serves the purpose of keeping the hair pliant.
Each hair-follicle, hair-sac, or hair-pit, as it is variously termed, bulges out at its deeper part, contracting to a long narrow neck as it passes to its skin.
Near the surface of the latter the follicle widens out again, and it is from this part that the hair emerges.
While it is not certainly known, it is probable that the ovum is capable of impregnation any time during its sojourn within the oviduct and before reaching the uterus, or probably for a period of about one week from the time of its escape from the Graafian follicle.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1954–2014).