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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Social role of hair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It grows on most areas of the human body, except for the palms of the hands and the feet, but hair is most noticeable in most people in a small number of areas that are most commonly trimmed, plucked, or shaved.
		This highly visible body hair is a notable secondary sex characteristic.
		Hair has had social and sexual significance in a number of societies, as a sign of manliness in men, and femininity in women when in "right" place, and as a sign of effeminacy in men and unfemininity in women when in the "wrong" place.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/so/Social_role_of_hair (261 words)

	Psychology of Hair Loss
		Additional research indicated that single men and woman who had begun losing hair in their early twenties were more likely to suffer from extremely low self-esteem.
		Long ago, a full head of hair was valued as a means of protection, heat retention, and camouflage.
		Studies have shown that hair is a symbol of social, professional, cultural, and/or religious affiliations.
	www.hairlosslearningcenter.org /hair-loss-content/cures/psychology-of-hair-loss.asp (658 words)

	Hair Today -studying hair and hair follicles
		The expanding base of the hair follicle plug surrounds a group of dermal mesenchymal cells to form the dermal papilla, and the hair plug develops into the hair bulb matrix, whose rapidly dividing epithelial cells differentiate and move toward the surface of the skin to form the inner root sheath and hair shaft.
		Hair follicle epithelial stem cells also "play some part, maybe a major part, in re-epithelialization after wounding of the surface epidermis," he says, but whether there are other epithelial stem cells in the skin is still a matter of debate.
		The entire hair follicle is attractive as a target for gene therapy because it is readily accessible, both because of its location on the surface of the body and because it is an anatomical break in the tough and generally impermeable outermost layer of the epidermis.
	www.hairbuildersofportland.com /articles/bioscience.html (3538 words)

	hair - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Hair proteins are held together by disulfide bonds, from the amino acid cysteine.
		Terminal hair grows thick and long, and is what grows on the head, armpits and pubic area, as well as on the face, chest, arms and legs (better evident in men).
		It is the hair in these areas that appears earlier or grows to excess in disorders of excess androgen (e.g., precocious puberty, late-onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and polycystic ovary syndrome).
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Hair (1600 words)

	Social role of hair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The highly visible differences between male and female body and facial hair are a notable secondary sex characteristic.
		Hair has had social and sexual significance in a number of societies, as a sign of masculinity in men, and femininity in women when in the "right" place, and as a sign of effeminacy in men and unfemininity in women when in the "wrong" place.
		This, combined with the notion that the woman's hair is the most attractive part of her body, was the reason behind tonsuring of a woman after her husband's death, so that no person would be attracted to her and thereby secure her chastity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_role_of_hair (531 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Hair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is evidenced by the rapid growth of hair from moles -- pseudo-cancerous tissue that must remove dangerous substances from the body, which are too dangerous to be sent into the bloodstream to be metabolized elsewhere.
		An excessive and abnormal hair growth on the body of males and females is defined as hypertrichosis.
		Another possibility is that long head hair is a result of Fisherian runaway sexual selection, where long lustrous hair is a visible marker for a healthy individual (with good nutrition, waist length hair—approximately 1 meter or 39 inches long—would take around 80 months, or just under 7 years, to grow).
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Hair (1945 words)

	Depilation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hair is also sometimes removed by plucking for example by tweezers or waxing.
		Hair is normally removed for social and sexual reasons related to the social role of hair in human society.
		Hair grows on all areas of the human body except for the palms of the hands, the lips, certain areas of the genital structure and the soles of the feet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hair_removal (1377 words)

	Depilation
		There is no normal medical reason for the removal of human body hair, which is removed for social and sexual reasons related to the social role of hair in human society[?].
		Hair grows on most areas of the human body, except for the palms of the hands and the feet, but hair is most noticeable in most people in a small number of areas that are most commonly trimmed, plucked, or shaved:
		Many women in Western cultures shave their body hair in the belief that body hair is not feminine (see gender role), or in the belief that it makes them look ugly.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Depilate.html (329 words)

	Hair
		Hair is a characteristic of all mammals, though in some species hair is absent at certain stages of life.
		Blond hair and red hair are at the thinner end of the scale, while fl hair is the thickest.
		Depending on some of the above, hair may be suitable for caressing and other touching by the person him/herself or by a friend or lover, or this may spoil the arrangement.
	www.findword.org /ha/hair.html (838 words)

	ipedia.com: Social role of hair Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It grows on most areas of the human body, except for the palms of the hands and the feet, but hair is most noticeable in most people in a small number of areas that are most commonly trimmed, plucked, or shaved.
		The highly visible differences between male and female body and facial hair are a notable secondary sex characteristic.
		Hair has had social and sexual significance in a number of societies, as a sign of manliness in men, and femininity in women when in the "right" place, and as a sign of effeminacy in men and unfemininity in women when in the "wrong" place.
	fav.ipedia.com /social_role_of_hair.html (319 words)

	Hair at Music Crawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In modern Western societies it is considered masculine for men to maintain the naturally thicker hair on their faces, arms, chests, backs, buttocks and legs, but the hair growing from the top of the head is generally kept relatively short.
		By contrast, it is considered feminine, for women to have little or no hair on their bodies, including pubic hair, but to let it grow long on the tops of their heads.
		Some degree of scalp hair loss or thinning generally accompanies aging in both males and females, and it's estimated that half of men are affected by male pattern baldness by the time they're 50.
	www.musiccrawler.net /artist/hair.html (2468 words)

	Hair Loss Facts
		Less important today is the role of hair in protecting the scalp against physical injury, heat loss in winter and damage from solar radiation in summer—we have headgear for this kind of protection.
		Hair is formed in the hair follicle and grows out of the follicle in a continuous cyclic pattern of growth and rest.
		Hair transplantation is an operation that takes hair from the back of the head and moves it to areas of hair loss elsewhere on the scalp.
	drochs.com /hairlossfact.htm (3877 words)

	Depilation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This is in spite of the fact that facial hair grows fast and has to be shaved daily to achieve a clean-shaven or hairless look.
		In Western culture, many women shave their body hair in the belief that body hair is not feminine (see gender role), or because they think it makes them look ugly.
		Hair grows on most areas of the human body, except for the palms of the hands and the feet, but hair is most noticeable in most people in a small number of areas that are most commonly waxed, trimmed, plucked, or shaved:
	www.askfactmaster.com /Depilation (1233 words)

	Hair Facts : Hair Removal Information
		For example, many women in Western cultures shave their body hair in the belief that body hair is not feminine, or in the belief that it makes them look ugly.
		Electrolysis Hair Removal - is a type of permanent hair removal in which destruction of living tissue, especially of hair roots, by means of an electric current applied with a needle-shaped electrode.
		Laser Hair Removal - is another type of permanent hair remvoal in which it removes hair by causing thermal and/or mechanical damage to a hair follicle while sparing surrounding tissues.
	www.geocities.com /hair_removal_clear (518 words)

	hairless
		This is evidenced by the rapid growth of hair from moles -- pseudo-cancerous tissue that must remove dangerous substances from the body, which are too dangerous to be sent into the bloodstream to be metabolized elsewhere.
		An excessive and abnormal hair growth on the body of males and females is defined as hypertrichosis.
		Hair length is measured (in inches or centimeters) from the front scalp line on the forehead up over the top of the head and down the back to the floor.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Hair.php (2716 words)

	Hair
		Hair care for human hair is a major world industry, with many specialized tools and techniques.
		The hair of people of Asian descent is typically thicker in diameter than the hair of other groups.
		Cross-section shape of human hair is typically round in people of Asian descent, round to oval in European descent, and nearly flat in African peoples; it is that flatness which allows African hair to attain its frizzly form.
	www.mrsci.com /Integumentary-System/Hair.php (2292 words)

	Depilation - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Many men in Western cultures shave their facial hair, so a minority of men have a beard, even though fast-growing facial hair must be shaved daily to achieve a clean-shaven or hairless look.
		In many cultures, women frequently remove some or all of their body hair, believing it is unattractive and/or not feminine (see gender role).
		Hair grows on all areas of the human body except for the palms of the hands, the lips,certain areas of the genital structure and the soles of the feet.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Depilation (1208 words)

	Hair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hair is most commonly that outgrowth of the epidermis found in mammals.
		However, hairs are also found on plants, the technical term for which is trichomes (see for further discussion of plant hairs).
		One theory suggests that nature selected for little body hair as part of a set of adaptations including bipedal locomotion and an upright posture.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Hair (1244 words)

	Hair Loss, Hair Loss Products, Hair Loss Remedy and Hair Loss Treatment
		Hair Loss, also referred to as balding, is caused by a variety of factors, the most important being heredity.
		Hair loss runs in the family and is not curable though someday, gene manipulation may lead scientists to a cure.
		As men age, these areas and the hair follicles that reside there suffer from a biological imbalance caused by a male hormone called DHT. Slowly, over a period of years, follicles wither and hair becomes thinner and shorter until it can't be seen at all.
	www.i-hairloss.com (152 words)

	Hair Removal CLSC - The Hair Removal Knowledgebase
		Many men in Western cultures shave their facial hair, so only a minority of men have a beard, even though fast-growing facial hair must be shaved daily to achieve a clean-shaven or hairless look.
		In a sexual context, pubic hair removal is done to increase visual exposure of the genitalia and/or facilitate access to the genital area by removing the barrier of hair.
		Some women in Western cultures choose not to remove hair from their bodies as an act of defiance against what they believe to be an oppressive ritual.
	www.clsc-sthenri.qc.ca /eng (395 words)

	Hairstyles Through the Ages - Crystalinks
		Children were often left with a long lock of hair growing from one part of their heads, the practice being so common that it became the standard in Egyptian art for artists to depict children as always wearing this "sidelock".
		They dyed their hair and wigs a variety of colors with blues, greens, blondes and gold colors being among the preferred colors though fl wigs hued by indigo were the favorite.
		In China unmarried girls' hair was usually worn long and braided while women combed the hair back from the face and wound into a knot at the nape.
	www.crystalinks.com /hair2.html (4100 words)

	The Wisdom of Mankind on hair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hair grows from all areas of the skin on humans regardless of sex or race except in the following locations: the lips, the nipples, the palms of hands, the soles of feet, certain external genital areas, the navel and other scar tissue.
		Hair consists of an inner cortex, comprising spindle-shaped cells, and an outer sheath, called the cuticle.
		Older people tend to develop gray hair (actually colorless) because the pigmentation in the hair is lost and the hair becomes colorless.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/hair (2640 words)

	Hair removal Summary
		In many cultures, particulary eastern European and Middle Eastern cultures, women frequently remove some or all of their body hair, believing it is unattractive and/or not feminine (see gender role and hirsutism), or as a matter of practicing good hygiene.
		In a sexual context, pubic hair removal is done to increase visual exposure of the genitalia and/or facilitate access to the genital area by removing the barrier of hair, and for the purpose of cleanliness.
		But hair is most noticeable in most people in a small number of areas that are most commonly waxed, trimmed, plucked, or shaved.
	www.bookrags.com /Hair_removal (1970 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Health : Beauty : Hair
		Terminal hair grows thick and long, and is what grows on the head, armpits and pubic area, as well as on the face, chest, arms and legs (better evident in men).
		Some degree of scalp hair loss or thinning generally accompanies aging in both males and females, and it's estimated that half of men are affected by male pattern baldness by the time they're 50.
		It is the hair in these areas that appears earlier or grows to excess in disorders of excess androgen (e.g., precocious puberty, late-onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and polycystic ovary syndrome).
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Health-Beauty/Hair.shtml (2840 words)

	The social functions of hair
		Our own hair is one of the first and last things we attend to before a meeting or a social engagement.
		Single men and woman who had begun losing hair in their early twenties were more likely to suffer from extremely low self-esteem.
		The person with a balding head of hair was rated as least potent, weak, dull, and inactive, and the person with a bald head of hair was rated as most unkind, bad, and ugly.
	www.101corp.com /social.html (411 words)

	haircue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the 1960s, anti-establishment bushy hair for men was popularized by magazine and TV images of the Beatles, a British pop group whose members wore their hair noticeably longer than other males of the time.
		In the 1970s, very long straight hair for women was popularized by magazine and TV images of the American folksinger, Joan Baez, whose dark tresses contrasted with the shorter, chemical-permanent styles of the time.
		The emotional appeal of human head hair is mediated, in part, by grooming-related tendencies wired into paleocircuits of the cingulate gyrus.
	members.aol.com /nonverbal2/haircue.htm (982 words)

	Facts about baldness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Baldness is the state of lacking hair where it usually would grow, especially on the head.
		It is believed to result from a decrease in estrogen, a hormone that normally counteracts the balding effect of testosterone, which normally occurs in women's blood.
		Hair loss is a frequent side-effect of chemotherapy, in all ages and both sexes.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/baldness.html (196 words)

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