hair

hair definition - medical

hair (hâr)

noun
  1. Any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal.
  2. A growth of such filaments, as that forming the coat of an animal or covering the scalp of a human.
  3. One of the fine hairlike processes of a sensory cell.

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