Anatom3DHair follicles
Folliculi pili · Vlasové folikuly
Skin & appendages
Looks like
A tiny pocket in the skin with a root, an oil gland and a muscle that raises the hair.
What it does
Grows hair, oils the skin and makes goosebumps.
Keeping it well
Gentle washing, no tight traction hairstyles; blocked follicles become spots and boils.
Related conditions
- Acne vulgaris
- Alopecia (androgenetic & areata)
- Atopic dermatitis (eczema)
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Boils and folliculitis
- Bullous pemphigoid
- Burns
- Candida & fungal infection
- Cellulitis
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chilblains (pernio)
- Cold sores (herpes simplex)
- Contact dermatitis
- Endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)
- Epidermoid (sebaceous) cyst
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Hyperhidrosis
- Hypermobility and Ehlers–Danlos syndromes
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Infantile haemangioma (strawberry mark)
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Keloid & hypertrophic scars
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Lichen planus
- Lichen sclerosus
- Lyme disease
- Mast cell activation & mastocytosis
- Measles
- Melanoma
- Melasma
- Mpox (monkeypox)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Necrotising fasciitis
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
- Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
- Pilonidal sinus
- Pressure ulcers & chronic wounds
- Psoriasis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Radiation injury
- Rosacea
- Roseola (sixth disease)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Scabies & lice
- Scarlet fever
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Seborrhoeic dermatitis & dandruff
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Skin cancer (basal cell & squamous cell)
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Sun damage & actinic keratosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Urticaria & angioedema
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Vitiligo
- Warts, molluscum and skin infections