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the body's most loyal real estate, where 100,000 strands stage their slow rebellion.
means The skin covering the top and back of the head, where hair grows — or, as a verb, to buy tickets cheap and resell them at a steep markup.
from From Old Norse 'skalpr,' meaning a sheath or shell, a cousin of words for things that cover and enclose — fitting, since the scalp sheathes the skull. The grisly sense of 'to remove someone's scalp' arose in colonial North America, and from the idea of taking a small piece for profit came the 19th-century American slang for ticket-scalping.
- blood supply
- so rich that scalp wounds bleed dramatically
- sweat glands
- packed with them, hence the soaked hairline
- layers
- five, spelling the handy acronym SCALP
- reattachment
- surgeons can sew torn scalps back on
- hair turnover
- sheds around 100 strands every day
french and indian war — british and french colonists offered bounties for native american scalps in north america, 1754-1763
comanche scalp trade — mexican state of chihuahua paid bounties for apache and comanche scalps in the 1830s