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vellus (noun): Vellus refers to the short, fine, and lightly pigmented hair that covers the body, especially in areas with thin or delicate skin. This type of hair is commonly found on infants and can also exist in adults in regions where terminal hair is absent. Vellus hair serves a role in regulating body temperature and providing sensory functions

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Vellus hair often covers the face.
The new hair is called vellus hair.
Vellus hairs are smaller and therefore less visible.
The involvement of vellus hair is possible.
Vellus hair is not lanugo hair.
It is characterised by the absence of vellus hair in the hairline.
This vellus hair may be a precursor to terminal hair.
This includes new vellus hair.
Small vellus hair will often replace the hair that is lost.
These hormones cause hairs to change from vellus to terminal.
Between the presence of temporary vellus and the degree of immunodepression no correlation described.
Vellus hairs are the hairs typically seen over much of the body in childhood.
High percentage of vellus hair.
The growth cycle of vellus hair is different from the growth cycle of terminal hair.
More sweat wets the external part of the vellus strand and then evaporates.

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Most of the source for his life comes from a short autobiography written in Aureum Vellus.
Most of these follicles produce tiny vellus hairs that are cosmetically insignificant.
Vellus to Terminal.
In contrast, females have more vellus hair.
For instance, vellus hair is a juvenile characteristic.
Hypertrichosis involves lanugo, vellus and terminal hairs.
Vellus hair serves a purpose, which is to help regulate our body temperature.
As alopecia progresses, there is a change from terminal to vellus type hair.
Unlike terminal hair, the growth of vellus hair is not influenced by hormones.
It is replaced by hair covering the same surfaces, which is called vellus hair.
In men, this change in vellus hair occurs on the face and the body.
Thinning can progress so that thefollicles ( follicles ) start producing only vellus hair.
Vellus hairs are also naturally fine and transparent, but thicker than lanugo hairs.
As alopecia progresses, the hairs change from the terminal to the vellus type.
Unlike men, women only develop fine vellus facial hair, giving their skin more surface area.
Specifically, the subject invention relates to methods for depilation of vellus hair in human skin.
Hairs of varying lengths and short vellus hairs may be seen in these patches Figure 1.
As mentioned earlier, VR6 Definitive Hair acts on terminal hair and not on vellus hair.
Minoxidil can thicken up thinning and vellus hairs in around 50 % of its users.
Terminal hair is gradually converted to short, wispy, colorless vellus hair.
The Latin language uses the word vellus to designate " a fleece " or " wool.
In humans, terminal hairs are thick, long and dark, as compared with vellus hair.
Vellus hair replaces lanugo hair on a human fetus at 36 to 40 weeks of gestation.
Shortly after birth, a child will lose their lanugo and vellus hairs will replace them.
With vellus hair, the bedbugs took between 22 and 26 seconds to find a good place.
Additionally, different types of hair exist including terminal hairs, vellus hairs and modified terminal hairs.
In adult humans, there are two types of hair: head hair and vellus hair.
Humans have two types of hair, vellus ( light and fine ) and terminal ( dark and thick ).
There are three different types of hair, terminal, vellus and lanugo.
Follicular units also contain sebaceous ( oil ) glands, nerves, a small muscle, and occasional fine vellus hairs.
SCORE 1, Almost no hair is seen, and only a few vellus hairs are observed.
Regressing stage is characterized by the growth of vellus ( gun ) in bald foci.

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