Look up: lanugo

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   lanugo
   [n] - the fine downy hair covering a human fetus
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   lanugo
   Downy-like, fine hair on a fetus. Lanugo can appear as early as 15 weeks of gestation, and typically begins to disappear sometime before birth.
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   Lanugo
   Lanugo: Downy hair on the body of the fetus and newborn baby. It is the first hair to be produced by the fetal hair follicles, usually appearing on the fetus at about five months of gestation. It is very fine, soft, and usually unpigmented. Although lanugo is normally shed before birth around seven or eight months of gestation, it is sometimes pres ...
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   Lanugo
   La·nu'go noun [ See Lanuginose .] (Anat.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.
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   lanugo
   <anatomy> The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal foetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth. ... See: Lanuginose. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   lanugo
   noun the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation
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   Lanugo
   `Lanugo` refers to hair that grows on the body in an attempt to insulate the skin because of lack of fat. It is a type of pelage. Lanugo is very fine, and may grow densely on the body in places where significant amounts of hair does not normally grow. Lanugo occurs on fetuses as a normal part of gestation. Lanugo hair is usually shed and replaced by vellus hair at ~40 weeks of gestational age. As the lanugo is shed from the skin, it is normal f...
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   lanugo
   (lә-noo´go) the fine hair that covers the body of the fetus and begins to disappear during maturation so that by nine months' gestation it is usually seen only on the shoulders of the newborn.
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   Lanugo
   • (n.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.
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    lanugo
    (from the article `hair`) Human beings have several different types of hairs. The first to develop is the lanugo, a layer of downy, slender hairs that begin growing in the ...
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    lanugo
    Syn: downy hair [L. down, wooliness, from lana, wool]
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    Lanugo
    Fine, downy hair growing on the skin of a fetus at approximately 26 weeks of gestation. This hair protects the fetus's skin while in the uterus that begins to shed during the ninth month of gestation and disappears a few days after birth.
    Found on http://www.pregnology.com/AZ/L/1