hairpluck

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From hair +‎ pluck.

Noun[edit]

hairpluck (plural hairplucks)

  1. (medicine) The act of plucking out one or more hairs.
    • 2015 June 19, Anna M. Drozd et al., “Generation of human iPSCs from cells of fibroblastic and epithelial origin by means of the oriP/EBNA-1 episomal reprogramming system”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy[1], volume 6, →DOI:
      Another source of easily accessible material are follicles from hairplucks.