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What is hair?


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Hair - any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin. Made from keratin.

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Hair is a filamentous biomaterial, that grows from follicles found in the dermis . The human body, apart from its glabrous skin, is covered in follicles

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Hair is basically a form of skin. It is made of a protein called keratin and grows everywhere on the body except for a few areas.

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Hair is a keratinised protein filament that grows through the epidermis from follicles deep within the dermis. Thanks!

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Your hair is approximately 91 percent protein, and is made up of long chains of amino acids. ChaCha!

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First, your hair grows from follicles within the skin. The part of the hair inside the follicle (below the skin's surface) (more?)

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Hair is a growing substance found mostly on people's balls, heads, arms, legs, and stuff that grows on cats, dogs,...MORE? ChaCha!

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Hair - n: any of the cylindrical, keratinized, often pigmented filaments characteristically growing from epidermis of a mammal.

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