FOLLICLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does follicle mean? 

• FOLLICLE (noun)
  The noun FOLLICLE has 1 sense:

1. any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity

  Familiarity information: FOLLICLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOLLICLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("follicle" is a kind of...):

cyst; vesicle (a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "follicle"):

hair follicle (a small tubular cavity containing the root of a hair; small muscles and sebaceous glands are associated with them)

Graafian follicle (a vascular body in a mammalian ovary enclosing a developing egg)

Derivation:

follicular (of or relating to or constituting a follicle)

 Context examples 

The dermis has connective tissue, blood vessels, oil and sweat glands, nerves, hair follicles, and other structures.

(Dermis, NCI Dictionary)

A rare developmental skin condition consisting of abnormal pilosebaceous follicle development.

(Nevus Comedonicus, NCI Thesaurus)

The oocyte and its single layer of ovarian granulosa cells make up a primary follicle.

(Ovarian Granulosa Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Clonal proliferations arising from cutaneous hair follicles composed in part of cells with basaloid cytology that resemble human cylindromas.

(Cylindroma Type of Basaloid Follicular Neoplasm of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A cutaneous follicular lymphoma may be metastatic to the skin from the lymph nodes or other anatomic sites or primary (cutaneous follicle center lymphoma). —2003

(Cutaneous Follicular Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent causes the release of the pituitary gonadotropins follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH), leading to ovulation.

(Clomiphene, NCI Thesaurus)

White fibrous bodies that form as a result of ruptured follicles in the ovary.

(Corpora Albicantia, NCI Thesaurus)

They observed that the endings of the fibers made lasso-like structures around the base of each hair follicle.

(Study uncovers specialized mouse neurons that play a unique role in pain, National Institutes of Health)

Representative examples include cutaneous marginal zone B-cell lymphoma and cutaneous follicle center lymphoma.

(Cutaneous B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The discharge of a secondary oocyte from a vesicular follicle of the ovary.

(Ovulation, NCI Thesaurus)