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The hair itself,
together with the fingernails, is made of flattened keratinized cells thickly
stacked together. Melanin granules secreted around these cells give hair its
color which can vary as can skin by the amount and color of the melanin
granules. Terminal (coarse) hair has both a medulla and cortex, and is
typical of male body hair and pubic hair in both sexes. Fine vellus hairs,
which are typical of women and children, are thinner because they lack the
dense medulla. Even bald men have hair on their heads, but it is of the
vellus type.
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