Root Sheath - Inner Root Sheath

The inner root sheath consists of

  • (1) a delicate cuticle next the hair, composed of a single layer of imbricated scales with atrophied nuclei;
  • (2) Huxley's layer
  • (3) Henle's layer

The term "trichilemmal" refers to the outer root sheath.

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