![]() If your best friend pings you about something big and dramatic that happened (or anything at all), send the □ emoji to say that you’re all ears, and hers too.(Vellus hairs, are short and almost invisible, growing in most places on the body. This condition is reserved for males only and is inherited as a Y-linked trait. In rarer cases, tragi hairs can be found in the tragus, antitragus, and helix portions of the ear canal air (throughout the auricle), and can cover the ear. Similar thick hairs are often found lining the outer portion of the ear canal and can interfere with the normal outward migration of wax and debris, leading to an accumulation in the ear canal. Heavy tragi hair can sometimes create problems when making ear impressions, and often “barbering” is required because certain ear impression materials might allow the hairs to become embedded into the ear impression, potentially causing discomfort when removing the ear impression with hair attached. It has been reported that heavy growth may prevent hearing aids from making a good seal. Ear Hair FunctionĮar hair serves a protective function by filtering dust from the air and also acts to impede the entry of insects and debris. In contrast, hair growth within the outer portion of the ear canal seems to increase and become stiffer as men age (along with an increase in nasal hair growth). The inner two-thirds of the ear canal, called the bony ear canal, does not have sufficient dermis and hypodermis underlying the epidermis to support the hair root of hair follicles. Hair growth within the ear canal itself is limited to the cartilaginous ear canal: roughly the outer one-third of the ear canal. However, in its broader sense, ear hair may include the fine vellus hair covering much of the ear (particularly at the prominent parts of the anterior ear), as well as the terminal, or tragi hair. Since then, the 64-year-old (in 2015) grocer’s ear hair has continued to grow to almost 10 inches long.Įar hair is generally identified as the terminal hair developing from the follicles inside the ear canal. In some extreme cases, the ear hair can be quite long, recorded as being 5.2 inches by the Guinness World Records in 2003 for Radhakant Baijpai. This condition is more often found in men than women. Tragi hairs can be numerous in some people and also very prominent. However, during and after puberty, dihydrotestosterone (DHT) present in the body causes vellus hairs on the arms, legs, faces, and in other parts of the body to grow thicker and darker, into “terminal” hair-to a greater extent in men than women with aging, the normal growth cycles of hair (growth, resting, and falling out phases) get out of whack, and as a result, some hairs grow longer before they are shed. Marks and Miller also identify other cases of irregular vellus hair growth, with hairs growing to as long as 2-4 cm. ![]() When short, it is often referred to as “peach fuzz.” According to Marks and Miller, the strands are usually short (less than 2 mm), and the follicle is not connected to a sebaceous gland. At the ear, they are present in the very outer portion of the ear canal (in the outer cartilaginous area or on the pinna itself). Vellus hairs are tiny, short, thin, and almost invisible (see image), growing in most places on the human body. ![]()
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