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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Baldness
Message-ID: <1049@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 12:48:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 27 12:48:09 1984
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Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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The length of hair is limited by falling out and replacement by a new
hair.  (I can directly observe this because I have a waxed mustache; this
artificially restricts the fallout to grooming activity.  A rough
approximation is a hair lifetime of a year by which time length is about two
inches).  I don't know whether the maxiximum length is modulated by changes
in lifetime or in growth rate or both over different parts of the body.
-- 
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
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