Woolly Explanation

Woolly hair

Keywords Disease name Included diseases Definition and diagnosis criteria Differential diagnosis Frequency Clinical description Management and treatment Etiology Diagnostic methods Genetic counseling Unresolved questions References Abstract Woolly hair is a rare congenital abnormality of structure of scalp hair. It is marked by extreme kinkiness of hair in Caucasians. Woolly hair is either alre...

Familial woolly hair disease.

J Balaji and P Amutha Rajeshwari, Institute of Child Health and Research Centre, Government Rajaji Hospital and Madurai Medical College, Madurai. Tamil Nadu, India. [email protected] FIG.1 A child with Hypomelanosis of Ito showing multiple whorled like hypopigmented lesions present over abdomen, chest and back. FIG.2 Fundus showing pale disc, tortous vessels around the disc, radial patchy ...

What Killed the Woolly Mammoth?

0659 Forty-two thousand years ago, during the last glacial advance of the Pleistocene epoch, woolly mammoths thundered across the frozen steppes of the Eurasian continent. The huge beasts thrived on the arid tundra of the last ice age, having adapted to temperatures that would chill the toes off any hairless ape. Yet, by the middle of the Holocene epoch, 6,000 years ago, the glaciers had retrea...

Woolly antics between the sheaths.

Hair is a potent cultural signal that when perceived as deficient can invite psychological trauma. Over the past few decades, researchers have successfully dissected several controls for hair follicle development and growth. However, we know relatively little about the genetic controls for hair fiber form and texture, despite wide variability in the expression of hair phenotypes among different...

A case of woolly hair naevus.