Here you can see how the follicle has become irritated.
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Follicle
Synonyms for "follicle" (49 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (24)
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4 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 27 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- follikel noun (anatomy)
Arabic
2 entries- حويصلة noun (anatomy)
- حُوَيْصِلَة noun (anatomy)
Catalan
2 entries- fol·licle noun (anatomy)
- fol·licle noun (botany)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 小囊 noun (anatomy)
- 毛囊 noun (anatomy)
- 濾泡 /滤泡 noun (anatomy)
- 蓇葖 noun (botany)
Czech
3 entries- folikul noun (anatomy)
- měchýřek noun (botany)
- váček noun (anatomy)
Dutch
2 entries- follikel noun (anatomy)
- kokevrucht noun (botany)
Esperanto
2 entries- foliklo noun (anatomy)
- foliklo noun (botany)
Finnish
4 entries- (e.g. ovarian) rakkula noun (anatomy)
- follikkeli noun (anatomy)
- tuppi noun (anatomy)
- tuppilo noun (botany)
French
2 entries- follicule noun (anatomy)
- follicule noun (botany)
Galician
2 entries- folículo noun (anatomy)
- folículo noun (botany)
German
3 entries- Balgfrucht noun (botany)
- Haarbalg noun (anatomy)
- Haarfollikel noun (anatomy)
Greek
1 entries- λεμφοζίδιο noun (anatomy)
Hungarian
4 entries- szőrtüsző noun (anatomy)
- tüsző noun (anatomy)
- tüsző noun (botany)
- tüszőtermés noun (botany)
Italian
2 entries- follicolo noun (anatomy)
- follicolo noun (botany)
Japanese
4 entries- 卵胞 noun (anatomy)
- 小胞 noun (anatomy)
- 毛嚢 noun (anatomy)
- 濾胞 noun (anatomy)
Māori
1 entries- ruahuru noun (anatomy)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- çikildan noun (anatomy)
- çîkildan noun (anatomy)
Polish
4 entries- cebulka noun (anatomy)
- mieszek noun (anatomy)
- mieszek noun (botany)
- pęcherzyk noun (anatomy)
Portuguese
2 entries- folículo noun (anatomy)
- folículo noun (botany)
Russian
4 entries- мешо́чек noun (anatomy)
- мешо́чек noun (botany)
- стручо́к noun (botany)
- фолли́кул noun (anatomy)
Spanish
2 entries- folículo noun (anatomy)
- folículo noun (botany)
Tagalog
1 entries- bingkasbunga noun (botany)
Tocharian B
1 entries- klokaśce noun (anatomy)
Ukrainian
1 entries- листя́нка noun (botany)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- kožuškowy płód noun (botany)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nang noun (anatomy)
Welsh
1 entries- ffoligl noun (botany)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
DNA testing, the analysis of human biological material, is reshaping America's criminal justice system. Deoxyribonucleic acid is the repository of genetic information that resides in our cells, and no two people — not even identical twins — have the same DNA. In criminal investigations, DNA can be extracted from many sources, a single hair follicle — a drop of blood, other bodily fluids, or a microscopic fingernail scraping.
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He could feel the follicles in his inner ear go crazy.
Source: wiktionary
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