Laser Hair Removal Exam Answers
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What are the three types of hair - ✔✔lanugo, vellus, terminal
What is hair in the intermediate stage called - ✔✔Accelerated vellus
Can vellus hair be treated with laser true or false - ✔✔False
What hair is very short, soft hair that contains no or very little melanin so the skin appears to be hairless ;
also called peach fuzz - ✔✔Vellus hair
What is the type of hair you will be mostly treating with laser hair removal machine - ✔✔Terminal
What hair is typically pigmented, long, and course - ✔✔Terminal
What consist of a hair shaft, hair root, and hair bulb - ✔✔Your hair
What is the elongated section of the hair that protrudes through an outs of the follicle where it becomes
visible to the human eye - ✔✔The shaft
What is the thickest section of the hair that sits right above the hair bulb at the innermost end of the hair
shaft - ✔✔The hair root
What is the dark shiny substance below the hair root and engulfs the papilla - ✔✔The hairbulb
What is a bundle of tiny blood vessels that supply the nutrients that they hair need to grow together with
the matrix; the part where mitosis, or cell division take place - ✔✔The Papilla
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What are the three sections of the hair shaft from innermost part of the hair to outward - ✔✔Medulla,
cortex and cuticle
What is the innermost section of the hair and it is found only in terminal hairs - ✔✔Medulla
What is the second or middle layer, and is considered the thickest layer; also holds the melanin -
✔✔Cortex
What gives hair it's color - ✔✔Melanin
What is the third and outermost layer of the hair; it helps protect the inner layers of the hair and also help
anchor the hair into the follicle ; it is made of keratin ; it offers protection because of it's hard, fibrosis
makeup - ✔✔Cuticle
What are two important components of the nutritional process of hair - ✔✔Blood and hormones
What have the ability to facilitate hair growth and influence other processes such as rates and other
growth such as changing vellus hair to terminal hair ; are supplied through the papilla - ✔✔Blood and
hormones
What is the carrier of nutrients and hormones - ✔✔Blood
What is the most important male hormone - ✔✔Testosterone
If a female has too many free and circulating androgens in her body she can have - ✔✔Unwanted side
effects such as turning vellus hair on her lip and chin too thick and dark terminal hair
What will transport your hormones to its target sell, or assigned location - ✔✔Your blood
How many stages does your hair go through in life - ✔✔Three
What are the three phases of hair growth in the order of which they take place - ✔✔Anagen, catagen,
telogen
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