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Hair
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ HAIR  id+ | SKIN FUR  PELT  COAT  HIDE |
^u      note old Frisian roots
  HER or
  HAR or
  HAAR and also
  ply> | BARB and BARBARIANS can PRICK |
  ply> | many BIGOTS had a Spanish BIGOTE = MUSTACHE |
  gr  THRIX          =  HAIR leading to
      HYPERTRICHOSIS    HAIRY
      THRICO~           prefix for HAIR as in
      THRICOBACTERIA    HAIR LIKE BACTERIUM
      TRICHOCYST        for HAIR LIKE CYST
  lat PILUS             PILOSE or HAIRY
  eng                   note  sug> DEPILATE
  lat CAPILI            SCALP HAIR       sug> CAPILLARY
  sp  CABELLO           HAIR ON THE CAPITA or HEAD or
      CABEZA            HEAD implying SCALP
      HIRSUTUS          HAIRY or SHAGGY
  sp  CERDA             note
      CERDO             PIG the implication being
  biol>                 STRONG HAIR MOSTLY FROM HOG or HORSE
  lat CIRRA             HAIR                     see> CIRRUS
      CIRRUS            HAIR also                see> SOW
  sc> CIRRI             are FLEECE LIKE WHITE CLOUDS
  sp  CRIN              MANE  HORSE HAIR or HORSEHAIR as in
  eng CRINITE           for HAIRY   see> HYPERTRICHOSIS
  sp  PELO              BODY HAIR
      PELUQUERO         HAIR CUTTER or BARBER
      PELUCA            WIG
      VELLO             GENERIC HAIR     sug> DEPILATORY
  ukr VOLOSIA           SCALP HAIR
  sp  BARBA             BEARD
      BARBERO           BARBER
  eng BARB              JAB CUT
  sp  BARBARO           BARBARIAN
  ukr BORODA            BEARD
  eng BIGOT             SUPREMACIST from
      BIGOTE            MUSTACHE        see> BIGOT
      CEJA              EYEBROW
      PESTAN~A          EYELASH
  gr  CHAETA            prefix or suffix for
                        BRISTLE or CILIA
  sp  PORRA             BUSHY SCALP
                        HAIR ON END
                        URCHIN LIKE HAIR
      PURRETE           YOUNG BOY can be called AN URCHIN
      PORRO             or
  eng CELERY            PLANT WITH HAIR LIKE TOP
      HISPID            HAIRY or HYPERTRICHOSIS
  note "HEAD of HAIR" is mostly a
       FEMININE ATTRIBUTE
  for excess of hair see> HIRSUTE
  lit+ "HAIRY EXPERIENCE" or
        "HAIR RAISING " perhaps from
  encounters with
  HAIRY and
  BAIR
  biol> med> HAIR IS A FILAMENT AND
             APPENDAGE OF THE SKIN     sug> FUR
  OFTEN A STRONG RESILIENT
  AGGREGATE OF KERATIN                 sug> KERNEL
  TERMINAL HAIR MAY SERVE AS
  A TACTILE ORGAN as in
  CILIA or EYELASH  EYEBROW etc
  MANY DISORDERS RELATE TO
  HAIR ABNORMALITIES as in
  TRICHORRHEXIS NODOSA for NODES AND BREAKAGE OF HAIR
  ALOPECIA                 BOLD  LACK OF HAIR
  HIRSUTISM                EXCESS OF HAIR  sug> BARBARAIAN
  PILUS CUNICULATUS        INGROWN HAIR
  LANUGO                   sp LANA = WOOL
                           FINE WOOL LIKE FETAL HAIR
  TRICHOBEAOZAR            HAIRBALL IN A STOMACH
                           often found in CATS or FELINES
  hx> Louis COULON HELD A RECORD FOR A LONG BEARD AND
      WHISKERS THAT WERE 11 FEET LONG
  note SHAVING STARTED BEFORE RECORDED HISTORY
       STONE WERE USED AS RAZORS
  ROMANS WERE SHAVEN AND CCONSIDRED
  BEARDED POPULATIONS AS A SIGN OF BEING BARBARIAN
  hx> King Camp GILLETTE [#]
      INVENTED A NEW TYPE OF THROW AWAY SAFETY RAZOR
  AND WITH IT HE INVENTED THE THROW AWAY
  HIS COMPETITOR WAS Jacob SCHICK [#]
  sp GILLETTE implies SAFETY RAZOR in contrast to
       NAVAJA         STRAIGHT RAZOR
  eng   RAZOR         from RASE ERASE
  sp  ARRASAR         TO LEVEL  DEVASTATE  ERASE
        RASO          SMOOTH  LEVEL
    CIELORASO         CEILING
  ply> | note link of hair with A MANE  LANUGO  BIGOT
         BARB  BARBARIAN  CANITY  CILIA  COMET  COSTUME
  POLIOSIS  PUBERTY  PILLOW  SCALP  TOUPE
  also note AGOUTI  CAPILLARY  COMOSE  KERATIN  PEEL
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