follicle

English

A hair follicle and nearby structures

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin folliculus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

follicle (plural follicles)

1. (anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, p. 345,

     He could feel the follicles in his inner ear go crazy.

2. (botany) A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.

Derived terms

• follicly
• follicly challenged

Translations

anatomy

• Arabic: حُوَيْصِلَة‎‎ f (ḥuwayṣila)

  Egyptian Arabic: حويصلة‎‎ f (ḥuwaiṣela)

• Catalan: fol·licle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小囊 (zh) (xiǎonáng), 濾泡 (zh), 滤泡 (zh) (lǜpào), (hair follicle) 毛囊 (zh) (máonáng)

• Dutch: follikel m
• Finnish: (hair) tuppi, (e.g. ovarian) rakkula, follikkeli (fi)
• French: follicule (fr) m
• German: (hair) Haarbalg m, Haarfollikel m

• Greek: λεμφοζίδιο n (lemfozídio)
• Hungarian: szőrtüsző (hu)
• Italian: follicolo (it) m
• Japanese: 卵胞 (らんぽう, ranpō), 濾胞 (ろほう, rohō), 小胞 (しょうほう, shōhō), 毛嚢 (もうのう, mōnō)
• Maori: ruahuru (of a hair)
• Polish: mieszek (pl) m, woreczek (pl) m, pęcherzyk (pl) m, torebka (pl) f, cebulka (pl) f
• Portuguese: folículo (pt) m
• Russian: фолли́кул (ru) m (follíkul), мешо́чек (ru) m (mešóček)
• Spanish: folículo (es) m

botany

• Catalan: fol·licle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓇葖 (zh) (gǔtú)

• Finnish: tuppilo (fi)
• German: Balgfrucht (de) f
• Italian: follicolo (it) m

• Japanese: 袋果 (たいか, taika)
• Polish: mieszek (pl) m
• Portuguese: folículo (pt) m
• Russian: стручо́к (ru) m (stručók), мешо́чек (ru) m (mešóček)
• Spanish: folículo (es) m
• Tagalog: bingkasbunga

Further reading

• follicle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia