follicle

English

A hair follicle and nearby structures

Borrowed from Latin folliculus.

follicle (plural follicles)

(anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.
- 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 345:
  He could feel the follicles in his inner ear go crazy.
(botany) A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.

anatomy

Afrikaans: follikel
Arabic: حُوَيْصِلَة f (ḥuwayṣila)
Egyptian Arabic: حويصلة f (ḥuwaiṣela)
Catalan: fol·licle (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小囊 (zh) (xiǎonáng), 濾泡／滤泡 (zh) (lǜpào), (hair follicle) 毛囊 (zh) (máonáng)
Czech: folikul (cs) m, váček (cs) m
Dutch: follikel (nl) m
Esperanto: foliklo
Finnish: (hair) tuppi (fi), (e.g. ovarian) rakkula (fi), follikkeli (fi)
French: follicule (fr) m
Galician: folículo m
German: (hair) Haarbalg m, Haarfollikel m
Greek: λεμφοζίδιο n (lemfozídio)
Hungarian: tüsző (hu)
Italian: follicolo (it) m
Japanese: 卵胞 (ja) (らんぽう, ranpō), 濾胞 (ろほう, rohō), 小胞 (しょうほう, shōhō), 毛嚢 (ja) (もうのう, mōnō)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: çîkildan f, çikildan f
Maori: ruahuru (of a hair)
Polish: mieszek (pl) m, woreczek (pl) m, pęcherzyk (pl) m, torebka (pl) f, cebulka (pl) f
Portuguese: folículo (pt) m
Russian: фолли́кул (ru) m (follíkul), мешо́чек (ru) m (mešóček)
Spanish: folículo (es) m
Tocharian B: klokaśce
Vietnamese: nang (vi)

botany