Vocabulary
The study of hair, including its diseases and care.
What is Trichology?
found below the skin and consists of the hair follicle, hair Bulb, and dermal papilla.
What is hair's living portion?
consists of hair cuticle, Cortex, and medulla
What is hair shaft?
process by which newly formed cells in the hair Bulb mature, fill with keratin, move upward, lose their nucleus and die.
What is keratinization?
made up of millions of polypeptide chains, which are cross-linked like a ladder’s rungs.
What is cortex side bonds?
is a tube like structure in the skin or scalp that surrounds the hair root and anchors the hair in the skin.
What is hair Follicle?
A strand of human hair has two parts.
What is hair root and hair shaft?
Always found in beard hair.
What is Medulla?
Are the Elements that make up the human hair.
What is Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and sulfur?
What are salt bonds?
long chain of amino acids linked by peptide bonds.
What is polypeptide chains?
located below the epidermis.
What is hair root?
What is cortex?
chemical bond that joins amino acids to each other, end to end.
What is peptide bonds?
refers to the amount of movement or shape of the hair strand.
What is wave patterns?
is located at the base of the follicle.
What is hair Bulb?
projects above the epidermis.
What is hair shaft?
What is hair cuticle?
Link together end to end and are the protein building blocks that comprise hair
What is Amino Acids?
What is hydrogen bond?
Is a cone shaped elevation at the base of the hair Bulb.
What is dermal papilla?
consists of the hair follicle, hair Bulb, dermal papilla, arrector pili muscle, and the sebaceous glands.
What is hair root structure?
known as the hair's pith or core. Not all hair types have it.
What is COHN'S Elements?
Found in the cortex
What is melanin?