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lanugo
la·nu·go L0044800 (lə-no͞o′gō, -nyo͞o′-)n. pl. la·nu·gos A covering of fine, soft hair, especially that found on the fetus or newborn of a human or other mammal.
[Middle English, pith, from Latin lānūgō, down, from lāna, wool.]lanugo (ləˈnjuːɡəʊ) n, pl -gos (Biology) a layer of fine hairs, esp the covering of the human fetus before birth[C17: from Latin: down, from lāna wool] lanuginous, laˈnugiˌnose adj laˈnuginousness nla•nu•go (ləˈnu goʊ, -ˈnyu-)
n., pl. -gos. a coat of delicate, downy hairs, esp. that with which the human fetus is covered. [1670–80; < Latin lānūgō pubescent hair, down, derivative of lāna wool] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | lanugo - the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestationpile, down - fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) |
TranslationsLanugo
lanugo[lə′nü·gō] (anatomy) A downy covering of hair, especially that seen on the fetus or persisting on the adult body. Lanugo the very fine hair covering the body of the seven-month and eight-month human fetus; most falls out before birth. lanugo
lanugo [lah-nu´go] the fine hair that covers the body of the fetus and begins to disappear during maturation so that by nine months' gestation it is usually seen only on the shoulders of the newborn.la·nu·go (lă-nū'gō), [TE] fine, soft, lightly pigmented fetal hair with minute shafts and large papillae; it appears at the end of the twelfth week and helps to hold the vernix caseosa on the skin. Synonym(s): downy hair [TA], primary hair ☆ , lanugo hair [L. down, wooliness, from lana, wool] lanugo (lə-no͞o′gō)n. pl. lanu·gos The fine, soft hair that grows on a fetus and is present on a newborn child.la·nu·go (lă-nū'gō) Fine, soft, lightly pigmented fetal hair with minute shafts and large papillae; it appears toward the end of the third month of gestation.
Synonym(s): lanugo hair. [L. down, wooliness, from lana, wool]lanugo The short, downy, colourless hair that covers the fetus from about the fourth month to shortly before the time of birth. Similar hair sometimes grows on people with cancer, on those taking certain drugs and on girls with ANOREXIA NERVOSA.lanugo the hair on the human embryo that is lost before birth.LanugoA soft, downy body hair that develops on the chest and arms of anorexic women.Mentioned in: Anorexia NervosalanugoenUS
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