10.5 POJA-L2173+2032+
2093.
Hair (pilus)
10.5 POJA-L2173+2032+2093
Title: Hair (pilus)
Description:
(A): Skin of arm, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), human. Epidermis with hair (1). (2) Squames of skin (corneocytes).
(B): Isolated hair shaft surrounded by its cuticle, SEM, human.
(C): Detail of (B). The hair cuticle is the outermost part of the hair shaft, consisting of hard shingle-like layers of overlapping cells. The direction of the free edges is toward the free surface of the epidermis.
In this isolated specimen the free margin of the epidermis is located at the bottom of the micrographs.
Keywords/Mesh: skin, hair, pilus, histology, electron microscopy, POJA collection
Title: Hair (pilus)
Description:
(A): Skin of arm, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), human. Epidermis with hair (1). (2) Squames of skin (corneocytes).
(B): Isolated hair shaft surrounded by its cuticle, SEM, human.
(C): Detail of (B). The hair cuticle is the outermost part of the hair shaft, consisting of hard shingle-like layers of overlapping cells. The direction of the free edges is toward the free surface of the epidermis.
In this isolated specimen the free margin of the epidermis is located at the bottom of the micrographs.
Keywords/Mesh: skin, hair, pilus, histology, electron microscopy, POJA collection