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	Lanugo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lanugo are hairs that grow on the body to attempt to insulate it because of lack of fat.
		Lanugo hair is usually shed and replaced by vellus hair at 36-40 weeks gestation.
		The presence of lanugo in newborns is a sign of premature birth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lanugo (106 words)

	* Lanugo - (Pregnancy & Parenting): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lanugo is the hair covering the fetus while in the womb.
		Lanugo The dark hair which may cov4r large parts of the newborn's body, especially if it is premature, is called lanugo and drops out over the next week or so...
		The lanugo, the downy hair that covered the body in the beginning of the second trimester, is mostly gone.
	www.bestknows.com /pregnancy/lanugo.html (867 words)

	hair biology - types of hair fiber
		Primary hair is the hair type produced in the very first cycle of hair growth that a hair follicle enters shortly after it develops in the embryo.
		Lanugo hair is the very first hair fiber to be produced by a hair follicle.
		This first wave of hair growth is normally shed by the embryo at around 8 months gestation while in the womb and replaced by terminal or vellus hair ready for birth.
	www.keratin.com /aa/aa013.shtml (1452 words)

	Principles of Pediatric Dermatology - Chapter 48 : DISEASES OF THE HAIR
		Newborn babies skin is covered by fine light colored hair known as lanugo hairs, which tend to be most dense on the face, limbs and trunk.
		Lanugo hair is shed during the first months of life to be replaced by vellus hair.
		It is fine hair, lightly pigmented, which covers most of the whole skin surface except palms, soles and the red surface of the lip near the mucocutaneous junction.
	www.drmhijazy.com /english/chapters/chapter48.htm (3415 words)

	hirsutism / hypertrichosis - hypertrichosis lanuginosa
		Lanugo hair is the very first hair to be made by an embryo’s hair follicles when still inside the womb.
		This first wave of hair growth is normally shed by the embryo at around 8 months gestation and replaced by fine vellus hair and terminal scalp hair in preparation for birth.
		Normally a few of the long lanugo hairs might survive through birth but are shed shortly after.
	www.keratin.com /ah/ah007.shtml (430 words)

	Lanugo (Growth of Downy Hair) - HealthBoards Bulletin Board
		As the baby nears full term, the lanugo "falls off" (for lack of a better word).
		The lanugo is "taking the place," if you will, of your lost bodyfat in order to help regulate your body temperature (keep you warm).
		Once you add the necessary bodyfat, the lanugo will no longer be "necessary" to regulate your body temp.
	www.healthboards.com /ubb/Forum110/HTML/001806.html (281 words)

	Pregnancy Trimester 3: What is lanugo? at Pregnancy & Baby
		Lanugo is the name given to the soft, fine, downy hair that covers a newborn.
		The amount of lanugo is variable and some parents are concerned by the amount of hair covering their new infant.
		Lanugo, even in the most extreme cases, will be shed and should not be treated.
	pregnancyandbaby.com /read/articles/4731.htm (465 words)

	eMedicine - Congenital Hypertrichosis Lanuginosa : Article by Abby Van Voorhees, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Patients with CHL have growth of the lanugo hair, which increases in length and extent of involvement from birth to approximately age 2 years (range, 1-8 y).
		Many individuals with CHL lose most, if not all, of their lanugo hair over time, and eventually, only limited areas of hypertrichosis may be present.
		Occasionally, the lanugo hair may be totally lost by the time the patient becomes an adult.
	www.emedicine.com /derm/topic811.htm (3137 words)

	A Moment of Science: Lanugo Hairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It's actually not all that uncommon for babies to be born with very little hair, or to lose it soon after being born.
		Then at about eight months into gestation most people lose their lanugo hair, so that it may be replaced by two new kinds of hair, vellus and terminal hair--the kinds of hair we will have for the rest of our lives.
		Those babies who are born with lanugo hair will probably lose it soon enough and replace it with vellus and terminal hairs just like the rest of us.
	amos.indiana.edu /library/scripts/lanugo.html (250 words)

	Week 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lanugo may fall out in the second week after birth, allowing fine scalp hair to grow.
		Ovaries of female fetuses contain primitive egg cells, all of the eggs a woman will have for her entire life.
		The vernix (consisting of dead skin, lanugo cells, and oil from glands) is now clearly formed and visible covering the skin.
	www.visembryo.com /baby/week18.html (116 words)

	University of Miami School of Medicine - Glossary - Lanugo
		It is the first hair to be produced by the fetal hair follicles, usually appearing on the fetus at about five months of gestation.
		Although lanugo is normally shed before birth around seven or eight months of gestation, it is sometimes present at birth.
		This is not a cause for concern: lanugo will disappear within a few days or weeks of its own accord.
	www.med.miami.edu /glossary/art.asp?articlekey=6210 (118 words)

	Physical & Medical complications of an eating disorder (ED) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The physician should also look for general hair loss, lanugo, abdominal tenderness, acrocyanosis (cyanosis of the extremities), jaundice, edema, parotid gland tenderness or enlargement, and scars on the dorsum of the hand.
		This is caused due to a protective mechanism built-in to the body to help keep a person warm during periods of starvation and malnutrition, and the hormonal imbalances that result.
		Growth of a downy layer of hair called lanugo all over the body, including the face, in an effort to keep the body warm.
	www.myeatingdisorder.com /medical.html (3013 words)

	Lanugo - DrGreene.com
		Anyone can be born with lanugo hair — especially babies born before their due dates.
		Lanugo hair is shed, never to return, within weeks.
		Lanugo hair is recognized by its appearance and location.
	www.drgreene.com /21_1131.html (441 words)

	Control of Hair Growth
		A second generation of lanugo hairs then starts growing and lasts until the first three or four months of extrauterine life are completed.
		After all lanugo hairs have disappeared, two types of hair emerge: vellus and terminal.[1] Vellus hairs are thin (< 0,1 mm), occasionally pigmented, and short (< 2 cm).
		All skin is covered with vellus hairs with the exception of skin on the palms, soles, volar side of fingers, penile glans and labia minora et majora (only on internal side).[2] Under the influence of diverse local and systemic factors vellus hairs are in certain regions transformed to terminal hairs.
	dermatology.cdlib.org /DOJvol4num1/original/jankovi.html (3038 words)

	Dermatique recommended skin care - Natural effective skin care, Treatment for eczema, Treatment for Acne, Effective ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the moments after birth, newborns are often red, bluish, or even grayish and bruised from their rocky trip down the birth canal.
		They're wrinkled, perhaps hairy (the fine covering is called lanugo), and even a little slimy (the vernix coating kept baby's skin from coming in contact with the amniotic fluid).
		Over the next week, the lanugo falls out and the vernix rubs off or is absorbed by the skin.
	www.dermatique.co.uk /eczemaguidebaby.html (740 words)

	lanugo - General Practice Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lanugo is the fine hair on the body of a premature baby.
		It is normally replaced by vellus hairs shortly before birth in the term baby.
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	www.gpnotebook.co.uk /cache/-1019936759.htm (93 words)

	* Vernix - (Pregnancy & Parenting): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The vernix clings to the lanugo (the fine downy hair) all over your baby's skin, to protect it and hold in moisture...
		Your baby is covered in a greasy substance called vernix, which protects him from the fluid he's floating in and is slippery, so he can't get tangled in the umbilical cord...
		Some of this substance may still be on the child's skin at birth at which time it will be quickly absorbed...
	www.bestknows.com /pregnancy/vernix.html (988 words)

	Stop Hair Loss and Gain New Hair
		No efficacy: no lanugo growth, or lanugo growth covering less than 1/3 of the affected area.
		Black Lily Hair Tonic has the effect of dilating the blood vessels in the scalp, improving the nourishment for the papillae of hair, reducing inflammation around hair follicles, and prolonging the growth period of hair follicles.
		Physical examination: no abnormalities found in an internal medical examination, hair on the top part of the scalp scarce, yellow in color, thin and short, an area of lanugo growth 6 cm in diameter, with lanugo about 0.5 cm in length, scalp found with seborrhea.
	www.china-guide.com /health/black.html (1562 words)

	34 Weeks of My Thoughts on Pregnancy
		If it's a boy, the testes have descended into their proper place.
		Your baby's' eyes are now open when awake, and closed when sleeping. Most of the lanugo (The fine, downy hair that often covers the shoulders, back, forehead, and cheeks of a prematurely born newborn infant.
		Lanugo is a sign of prematurity.) is gone and replaced with a thich coat of vernix (Also called vernix caseosa.
	www.megaace.com /thaisandvaughn/babyjournal/34weeks.html (907 words)

	Physical Dangers of Eating Disorders
		Lanugo is soft, downy hair which the body grows in attempt to keep itself warm during periods of starvation and malnutrition.
		Often, when an anorexic or bulimic's body weight becomes too low, the body will begin growing lanugo.
		While this isn't a physical danger or problem, it can be viewed as a clear signal that a person's weight is getting way too low.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/1456/10746 (524 words)

	Congenital Hypertrichosis /Hirsutism - The Trichological Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The medical term for excessive body hairgrowth (vellus, terminal, or lanugo type) at appropriate sites compared to other persons of the same sex, age, and ethnicity.
		Obese persons may find this type of hair growth is reduced with weight reduction.
		People with 'acquired hypertrichosis lanuginosa' will have lost their lanugo hair prior to birth.
	www.hairscientists.org /hypertrichosis-hirsutism.htm (828 words)

	Being Pregnant :: Calendar
		Week 20: Lanugo forms from sebum and skin cells to create vernix.
		This creamy white substance is believed to help protect the baby in your uterus.
		It will cling to the lanugo and in the creases.
	beingpregnant.tripod.com /calendar/calendar_wk17.html (241 words)

	Pregnancy Week 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		BabyZone's BabyBooks are interactive, making it easy and convenient to track your children's important milestones.
		Your baby is beginning to grow fine hair called the Lanugo.
		Lanugo, a very fine hair, covers the fetus.
	www.babyzone.com /features/stages?Stage=2&Interval=2&IntervalNum=15 (506 words)

	Pregnancy.org > Pregnancy Calendar > Glossary
		Folic acid also may lower the risk of stomach cancer.
		Lanugo: Downy hair on the body of the fetus and newborn baby.
		Linea Negra: A dark line from your belly button to your pubic bone, caused by hormones.
	www.pregnancy.org /pregnancycalendar/glossary.php (2465 words)

	Anorexia Issues: Anorexic Lanugo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The best part about it was I didn't even have to leave my armchair.
		The anorexic lanugo is yours for a long time.
		In 24 hours I had the best anorexic lanugo available.
	www.anorexia-issues.com /2005/03/anorexic-lanugo.php (162 words)

	Pregnancy and Baby: Pregnancy: Dictionary: Pregnancy terms starting with L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fine, peach fuzz (hair) covering the babies body from the beginning of the second trimester through most of the third.
		Occasionally there will be some lanugo on the head and ears of the baby after the baby is born.
		A surgical procedure in which a fiber optic instrument (a laparoscope) is inserted into the pelvic area through a small incision in the abdomen.
	sheknows.com /about/look/2451.htm (743 words)

	Pregnancy Calendar: Second Trimester: Weeks 13 - 16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Baby, you're covered in a comfy layer of lanugo which will mostly disappear before you are born.
		Actually, "lanugo" is Latin for "down" and is very soft, unpigmented (or white) fine small hairs.
		You have fingerprints, nippels and your back is going to straighten as your bones harden.
	www.webbabyshower.com /content/pregnancy/pregnancy-calendar-week-13.php (268 words)

	babyworld - pregnancy - glossary of pregnancy and birth - lanugo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		babyworld - pregnancy - glossary of pregnancy and birth - lanugo
		A fine covering of tiny hairs over the baby’s body at birth.
		Some women find it becomes bright red again if they are too active too soon.
	www.babyworld.co.uk /information/pregnancy/glossary/l.htm (219 words)

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		joist of your clavicle and pause there; lanugo
		I push back behind your ear, teasing the lanugo
		of your lanugo, our hearts pound beneath peachy skin.
	david.shackelford.org /lanugo.php3 (200 words)

	Anorexia Bulimia Issues: Sunday, March 27, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was as easy a point and click to discover just the right anorexic web for me.
		Why not take advantage of all the info that is on the web about anorexic lanugo.
		That anorexic lanugo was the exact thing I was looking for.
	www.anorexia-bulimia-issues.com /archives/2005_03_27_index.php (298 words)

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