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Definition of Follicles
1. follicle [n] - See also: follicle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Follicles
Literary usage of Follicles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on human physiology by John Call Dalton (1875)
"Another distinction between the follicles is that some of them are lined throughout
with cylindrical epithelium cells, not very different from those on the ..."
2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1914)
"There are many good small, medium- sized and large follicles; some large ...
A number of follicles show early and medium and some advanced connective tissue ..."
3. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"Solitary follicles and Peyer's Patches. All along the small intestine and at
various points of the circumference are found, partly in the submucous tissue ..."
4. Text-book of ophthalmology by Ernst Fuchs (1892)
"When the zone of hair-follicles is thus detached from the tissues beneath it, we
now need only separate it from its connection with the skin of the lid. ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"follicles 5 to 10, oblong or ovate, 2 to several-seeded. ... Tufted plant 1 to 3 in.
high; stamens about 10; follicles stipitate. ..."
6. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Stems erect, 0 dm. high, stout ; leaves oval, obtuse, toothed ; cymes compound ;
petals purple, oblong-lanceolate ; follicles abruptly pointed with a short ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"has recently shown quantitatively that during the whole course of the development
of the follicles definite relations exist between the ovum and the ..."
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