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sheath
(redirected from root sheath)

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The outermost cylinder is known as the outer root sheath, a structure that separates the hair follicle from the surrounding skin.
Hair today, gone tomorrow? Teasing out details of hair growth by Christensen, Damaris / Science News
In one approach, researchers remove a few hair follicles from human skin and extract from each follicle about 10,000 outer root sheath (ORS) cells, which surround the hair root.
Fuzzy science: researchers brush up on the biology of hair by Weiss, Rick / Science News
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