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noun. A small bodily cavity or sac.

noun. A crypt or minute cul-de-sac or lacuna, such as the depression in the skin from which the hair emerges.

noun. An ovarian follicle.

noun. A spherical mass of cells usually containing a cavity.

noun. A dry, single-chambered fruit that splits along only one seam to release its seeds, as in larkspur and milkweed.

noun. In botany: A dry one-celled seed-vessel consisting of a single carpel, and dehiscent only by the ventral suture, as in the milkweed and larkspur.

noun. Any bladder-shaped appendage; a utricle.

noun. In anatomy and zoology, a minute secretory or excretory cavity, sac, or tube; one of the ultimate blind ramifications of a secretory surface; a glandular cul-de-sac; a mucous crypt or lacuna; a minute nodule of lymphoid tissue.

noun. In entomology, a cocoon; the covering made by a larva for its protection during the pupa state.

noun. A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

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noun. A small cavity, tubular depression, or sac.

noun. A simple gland or glandular cavity; a crypt.

noun. A small mass of adenoid tissue.

noun. A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.

noun. A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.

noun. any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity

"Once the follicle is heavily damaged or destroyed, it no longer has the ability to grow hair."