1893 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,*Pilocystic tumour, a dermoid cyst, so called because of its often containing hairs.
1938 J. F. Fulton Physiol. NervousSyst. xiii. 248The most important mechanisms of heat production and preservation are shivering, mobilization of carbohydrate reserve, vasoconstriction, *piloerection, increase in heart rate, and elevation of metabolic activity.
1958 Jrnl. Investigative Dermatol. XXX. 107/2Injection of..epinephrine regularly produced ‘goose-flesh’ and piloerection.
1974 Carlson & Hsieh in N. B. Slonim EnvironmentalPhysiol. iv. 67/2Fur-bearing animals can greatly increase the insulation of their outer coat by piloerection.
1977 Rumbaugh & Gill in D. M. Rumbaugh Language Learning by Chimpanzee ix. 175Lana's response was to hoot with apparent agitation; she also displayed piloerection and a furrowed brow.
1946 A. Kuntz Autonomic NervousSyst. (ed. 3) xv. 327Intracutaneous administration of acetylcholine..elicits strong fleeting *pilo-erector activity.
1965 Jrnl. Investigative Dermatol. LXIV. 86/1The vasoconstrictor and pilo⁓erector effect in man of noradrenaline was compared with those of..dopamine.
1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 142/2Teeth are frequently found in *pilo⁓fatty cysts.
1891 Langley & Sherrington in Jrnl. Physiol. XII. 278It will be convenient to have a short name for the nerve- fibres, stimulation of which causes contraction of the erectores pilorum. We shall call them ‘*pilo-motor’ fibres on the analogy of ‘vaso-motor’ fibres.
1892 Ibid. XIII. 701This class of fibres consists of the eye-fibres of the sympathetic. Langley has shewn this for cat and rabbit, and they often in monkey extend a segment higher than do the pilo⁓motors for the scalp.
1893 Athenæum 18 Feb. 223/2 Observations upon Pilomotor Nerves.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 86There are the waves of goose-skin passing over the body due to stimulation of the pilo-motor nerves.
1909 Ibid. XXXVIII. 174The paralysis of the pilo-motor mechanism is one of the..results of nerve section.
1927 Ibid. LXIV. 98Shallow incisions..through the layers which contain the insertions of the pilomotor muscles into the hair roots.
1932 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. CII. 30The pilomotors reacted..to single shocks.
1948 A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. xi. 394The hypothalamus is probably concerned in integrating the activity of the pilomotors with other autonomic functions.
1880 R. M. Hodges in BostonMed. &Surg. Jrnl. CIII. 486/1For the development of this rather singular lesion, to which..I venture to give the name of *pilo-nidal (pilus, a hair, nidus, a nest) sinus, the following elements are necessary:—(1.) The presence of a congenital coccygeal dimple. (2.) Abundant pilous development...(3.) Insufficient attention to cleanliness.
1893 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Pilonidal sinus, a sinus occasionally found in the human subject as an abnormality, opening near the tip of the coccyx, and containing hair.
1956 Lancet 15 Dec. 1244 An interdigital sinus behaves like a fistula-in-ano or a pilonidal sinus elsewhere... These pilonidal sinuses appear to be acquired and may be caused by loose hairs, foreign bodies, or inspissated secretions being drawn into small abrasions or acne pits in the skin.
1957 S. L. Robbins Textbk. Path. xxx. 1186/2Anatomically, these lesions consist sometimes of sinus tracts, pilonidal sinus, communicating with the surface through minute (probe diameter) pores; at other times well developed epidermal-lined cysts, pilonidal cyst, that may or may not communicate with the surface.
1964 D. E. Smith in L. V. Ackerman Surg. Path. xxvi. 1063In their simplest form pilonidal sinuses or cysts are tracts lined by epidermis that extend beneath the skin toward the dura.
1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 880The orifices of the *pilo-sebaceous glands.
pilo-
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— see pil-
pilo-
Prefix
- Indicating a relation to hair
Etymology
Latin pilus (“hair”)