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Your hair has picked up extra electrons. This causes your hair to repel against each other(Like charges repel remember!). Because you hair is so tightly packed, the furthest any hair can get from another hair is to stand straight up.
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Lydia Greenwood
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∙ 14y agoYour blood runs cold, as a reaction of that, your pores tighten, and causes your hair to move with the close up of pores by standing up.
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What is an arrector pili?
It raises the hairs to give you goose bumps but it gives you goose bumps because you're cold but also it raises your hair when you're frightened
What are the smooth muscle cells that stand hairs on end in response to cold known as?
Arrector Pili Muscle
Can you make the hairs on your arm stand on end?
Standing hair is caused by the tiny muscle that connects the hair to the follicle. This muscle is called the arrector pili.
What is pili pili?
An arrector pili is any of a group of small muscles attached to hair follicles in mammals, the contraction of which causes the hairs to stand on end.
Gustatory hairs are to taste as olfactory hairs are to?
smell
What is another word for hairs on a dog's back?
when the hairs stand up on a dogs back they are known as Hackles
What is dead hair?
Dead hairs are the hairs that are curly and rough when touched and they stand up and can make your hair really messy.
Why do hairs stand up if body temperature is too low?
to keep the body warmer....
Why do the hairs on your arm stand up when they come into contact with a balloon?
static electricity static electricity
In order to warm the body up when cold?
the arrector pili muscles contract to stand hairs upright
Why do hair stands stand when you are frightened?
Your blood runs cold, as a reaction of that, your pores tighten, and causes your hair to move with the close up of pores by standing up.
What is an arrector pili?
It raises the hairs to give you goose bumps but it gives you goose bumps because you're cold but also it raises your hair when you're frightened
What happens when arrector pilli muscles contract?
These are the muscles that make your hair stand up.... goose bumps, anyone?
What does it mean when the hairs on your arm stand up?
it means that ur cold and ur skin is trying to make u warmer
Why do the hairs on the back of your neck stand up when you pray?
because you are afraid god will know the sins you have committed and not answer your prayers. Our hairs stand on the back of our neck when we are frigthened. It is a defensive thing from instinct. Do you get afraid when you pray? Try to relax and teach your self that there is nothing to get alarmed about and it shoulld stop.
Why do we get goosebumps on our skin when we get scared?
Adrenaline stimulates tiny muscles to pull the roots of our hairs, thereby making them stand up on our skin.
Difference between vellus and Terminal hair?
Vellus hair is fine peach fuzz found all over the body that is unpigmented, and does not stand up on its end (ie. goosebumps), whereas terminal hairs are thick, coarse and heavily pigmented. Terminals hairs have the capacity to stand up (goosebumps) and also contain sebaceous glands.
