folliculus

Hair grows in hair follicles and hair follicles take their name from folliculus, a Latin word meaning "little bag."

OUPblog Charles Hodgson 2010

This Polo corresponds with the folliculus, the pallone, the baloun-game (moyen âge) of Europe, where the horse is not such a companion of man; and whereof the classics sang: —

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And unless the little sack [folliculus] of the placenta is the intermediary between the falling blood and the child, [the blood] by penetrating would kill him who is exposed.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Et nisi secundinae folliculus inter sanguinem cadentem et puerum medius esset, ipsum in nudo contactum penetrando occideret.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Incunabulum: = folliculus and cocoon; q.v. Incurved - ate: bowed or curved inwards.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

This Polo corresponds with the folliculus, the pallone, the baloun-game

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855