i know this is an odd question but just one of them things that make you go hmmmmmmm
2007-04-05 05:06:13 · 2 answers · asked by Shana 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Let's suppose that a person had severe hirsuitism, a disorder where hair grows everywhere on the body. A fairly large surface area of skin would be 2.0 m^2, which is 20,000 cm^2. A very full head of hair is 150,000 individual hairs on a 770 cm^2 scalp, which is a density of 195 hairs/cm^2. That means that our large and extremely hairy person might have (195 hairs/cm^2)*(20000 cm^2) = 3,896,103 hairs on his body. So the absolute maximum would appear to be nearly 4 million hairs. But I don't want to clean his bathtub!
2007-04-05 05:14:31 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me get back to you in a few minutes. I'm still counting......
2007-04-05 05:16:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋