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Hair whorl, the Glossary

A hair whorl is a patch of hair growing in a circular direction around a visible center point.^[1]

10 relations: Amar Klar, Blaschko's lines, Cattle, Clockwise, Crown (anatomy), Hair, Hairy ball theorem, Handedness, Temperament, Twin.
Animal hair
Vertebrate developmental biology

Amar Klar

Amar Jit Singh Klar (April 1, 1947 – March 5, 2017) was an Indian-American yeast geneticist and epigenetics researcher.

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Blaschko's lines

Blaschko's lines, also called the lines of Blaschko, are lines of normal cell development in the skin.

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Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Clockwise

Two-dimensional rotation can occur in two possible directions or senses of rotation.

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Crown (anatomy)

The crown is the top portion of the head behind the vertex.

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Hair

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Hair whorl and Hair are human hair.

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Hairy ball theorem

The hairy ball theorem of algebraic topology (sometimes called the hedgehog theorem in Europe) states that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on even-dimensional ''n''-spheres.

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Handedness

In human biology, handedness is an individual's preferential use of one hand, known as the dominant hand, due to it being stronger, faster or more dextrous.

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Temperament

In psychology, temperament broadly refers to consistent individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes.

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