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Pilosebaceous follicle

A pilosebaceous follicle is a unit consisting of a hair follicle and a sebum-producing sebaceous gland. The sebaceous gland is connected to a hair that is more or less atrophied depending on the part of the body where it is located.
There are various types of hair. On the head, hair follicles extend 4mm below scalp level and the sebaceous glands are small.
Facial hair on the cheeks is fine, with follicles extending 2mm beneath the skin’s surface and larger sebaceous glands.
Nose hair and that found on the chin and cheekbones is even finer – barely visible – but the related sebaceous glands are extremely large.

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