follicle : Idioms & Phrases
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follicle-stimulating hormone
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noun a gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary and stimulates growth of Graafian follicles in female mammals, and activates the cells in male mammals that form sperm
FSH.
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graafian follicle
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noun a vascular body in a mammalian ovary enclosing a developing egg
Graafian follicle.
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Graafian follicles
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noun a vascular body in a mammalian ovary enclosing a developing egg
Graafian follicle.
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- or vesicles, small cavities in which the ova are developed in the ovaries of mammals, and by the bursting of which they are discharged.
Webster 1913
hair follicle
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noun a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair; small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them
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nabothian follicle
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noun a cyst that forms in the nabothian glands of the uterine cervix
nabothian cyst.
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sebaceous follicle
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noun a cutaneous gland that secretes sebum (usually into a hair follicle) for lubricating hair and skin
sebaceous gland; glandulae sebaceae.
