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Lanugo

noun
1.
The fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation.





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... embryo is, as a rule, entirely clothed with a thick coat of fine wool during the last three or four weeks of gestation. This embryonic woollen coat (Lanugo) generally disappears in part during the last weeks of foetal life but in any case, as a rule, it is lost immediately after birth, and is replaced by the thinner coat of the permanent hair. These permanent ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel
... or so-called lanugo, with which the human foetus during the sixth month is thickly covered, offers a more curious case. It is first developed, during the fifth month, on the eyebrows and face, and especially round the mouth, where it is much longer than that on the head. A moustache of this kind was observed ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin


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