Thence to Java, loading sugar for Marseilles, and back along the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, and on to Baltimore, down to her marks with crome ore, buffeted by hurricanes, short again of bunker coal and calling at Bermuda to replenish.
Hair growth begins inside the hair follicle. The only living portion of the hair is found in the follicle. The hair that is visible is the hair shaft, which exhibits no biochemical activity and is considered dead.
Related to hair follicle: hair bulb, sweat gland. n. A deep narrow pit that is formed by the tubular infolding of the epidermis and that encloses the root of the hair. n. (Biology) a narrow tubular cavity that contains the root of a hair, formed by an infolding of the epidermis and corium of the skin.