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Hair follicle of eyelashes (200X)

Microimage
Image copyright: Mathias Nordvi, ARR. (Tissue stain: van Gieson).

This image of the hair follicles of the eyelashes show a hair sectioned obliquely so that it appears oval in this image. The follicles are surrounded by muscle fibers and connective tissue. Notice the peripheral position of the nucleus inside the muscle fibers.

Published August 12th 2015, updated December 24th 2018.