A cowlick is a section of human hair that stands straight up or lies at an angle at odds with the style in which the rest of an individual's hair is worn.[1][2]
The most common site of a human cowlick is in the crown, but they can appear anywhere. They also sometimes occur in the front and back of the head.[citation needed]
The term "cowlick" dates from the late 16th century, when physician Richard Haydock used it in his translation of Gian Paolo Lomazzo: "The lockes or plaine feakes of haire called cow-lickes, are made turning upwards."[3]
A cowlick is a section of human hair that stands straight up or lies at an angle at odds with the style in which the rest of an individual's hair is worn...
expressed colloquially as "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" or "you can't comb the hair on a coconut". Every zero of a vector field...
guinea pig by its coat, which is marked with radially growing swirls or cowlicks of hair referred to as rosettes. The Abyssinian is one of the oldest guinea...
series. Klunk later appears in the IDW comics. Cudly the Transdimensional Cowlick is a giant cowhead with the ability to teleport and is an ally of the turtles...
appearance is almost exactly like her original counterpart except she has a cowlick on the back of her head. She is depicted as a tomboy who loves to get into...
consequences of inbreeding was a high frequency of cowlicks and kinked tails. The frequency of exhibiting a cowlick in a Florida panther population was 94% compared...
that "one cannot comb the hair flat on a hairy ball without creating a cowlick." This fact is immediately convincing to most people, even though they...
1605) was an English physician. He had the first recorded use of the term "cowlick" when he used it in his translation of Gian Paolo Lomazzo: "The lockes...
on photographs of Etta Place and Ann Bassett. Both had the same scar or cowlick at the top of their forehead. Dr. Kyle concluded that there could be no...
and Ann Bassett. Their features matched and both had the same scar or cowlick at the top of their forehead. He concluded that there could be no reasonable...
Ninja Turtles title for Mirage Studios. He is the creator of Cudley the Cowlick, Sgt. Bananas, and Stump and Sling. Lavigne attended Westbrook High School...
similar to the character in his previous manga work Yaiba, and that the cowlick was inspired by Kabu from Sally the Witch. His outfit is inspired from...
cowlick, unknown provenance Creased and darker version of photo at left, unknown provenance Person most often reported to be Holliday with a cowlick and...
have a short, smooth coat, and the Abyssinian, whose coat is ruffled with cowlicks, or rosettes. Also popular among breeders are the Peruvian and the Sheltie...
character of Ed Grimley began to take shape. Ed Grimley is an excessively cowlicked, voluble, hyperactive manchild who is obsessed with banal popular culture...
Senior High School. He was nicknamed "Rooster", supposedly for both a cowlick strand of hair and an assertive nature, particularly on important political...
struck by a bullet that entered in the right rear of the head near the cowlick area and exited from the right front side of the head differed from a diagram...
be thinned may be held with the fingers or comb.: 84–85 : 110 Whorls, cowlicks, and irregularities of the scalp can be addressed by shear point tapering...
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