Lanugo: Fine body hair found on human fetuses.
Lanugo: [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. SYN: downy hair [TA], primary hair*, lanugo hair. [L. down, wooliness, from lana, wool]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
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