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Activities like picking one's nose or plucking nasal hairs can damage the nasal lining, making it easier for bacteria to reach the brain. The olfactory nerve, located in the nose, provides a direct and relatively short route to the brain. Importantly, this route bypasses the protective barrier known as the blood-brain barrier.
Eyebrow plucking. Plucking or tweezing can mean the process of human hair removal, removing animal hair or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's body. In humans, hair removal is done for personal grooming purposes, usually with tweezers. An epilator is a motorised hair plucker.
Nasal hair or nose hair is the hair in the nostril. Adult human noses have hairs, which serve as a crude air filter to stop foreign particles from entering the nasal cavity, as well as to help collect moisture. [1] Nasal hair is different from the cilia of the ciliated lining of the nasal cavity.
One disclaimer on the medical point: plucking or waxing nose hairs does run the risk of an infection of the hair follicle, so if you’re removing nose hairs, it’s better to use a trimmer ...
Real talk: I’m the mom of a nose picker. I’ve tried everything—offering tissues, delivering Oscar-worthy reactions to the grossness, hinting at the long-term social embarrassment my child is ...
Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).
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