lanugo

A 5-year-old female patient was referred due to acanthosis nigricans and generalized lanugo which developed in the last two years.

Lanugo hair, sebaceous hyperplasia, erythema neonatorum, cutis marmorata and iatrogenic bruises were frequently seen in preterm neonates, whereas miniature puberty, physiological desquamation, milia, neonatal acne, Mongolian spot, miliaria and intertrigo were more frequently seen in term neonates.

formed is fine, long, and is a variably pigmented lanugo hair that is

Air stirs the fine hairs on infant bodies, sways lanugo like seaweed underwater.

At the same time, lanugo hair (equally on healthy skin and on the affected areas) was absent over the entire body surface.

Some develop soft downy hair on the body called lanugo. They could look at themselves in the mirror and still think they are overweight, thus causing a negative perception of one's self or distorted body image.

During physical examination, reluctance to be weighed, vital sign abnormalities (eg, orthostatic hypotension, variability in pulse), skin abnormalities (lanugo hair, dryness), and marks indicating self-harm can serve as diagnostic indicators.

(19) During the physical exam, look for signs that suggest the triad, including lanugo, enlarged parotid glands, and bradycardia (TABLE 2).

Subcutaneous adipose cells, which demonstrate the dynamic regeneration parallel to the activation of skin stem cell, are necessary and sufficient to drive follicular stem cell activation and support lanugo growth [13].

Beside these two types of hair, there is the so-called Lanugo hair which usually appears only on the body of a fetus or newborn baby [64].

Meconium is a blackish-green sticky material composed of debris of intestinal cells, lanugo hair, vernix, liquor, and bile pigments [1, 2].

Pups were classified as premature if [greater than or equal to] 50% body covering was lanugo, the soft white coat covering newborn seals that is typically shed in utero in Harbor Seals (Riedman 1990).