does the nails and hair of a dead body grow if the body is preserved?
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No.  Dead stuff doesn't grow.  Instead, what is perceived as "growth" is acually the surrounding tissues receding, or shrinking, as a result of moisture loss from the once living surrounding tissue.  Hair and nails are mostly protein (keratin) and contain very little moisture (in comparison to skin cells) and thus don't shrink.
720536
hair actually covers all the body surface, except for palm of hands, sole of feet, eyes, lip/mouth, and nails.  Some of hairs on our body may be very small or thin for us to realize.
435107
No, teeth are made of pulp, dentin, and enamel, like others have said.\n\nTo answer the second part of your question that hasn't been properly addressed: nails are made of a hard but flexible substance called keratin, which is also what your hair is made of. It is the same substance that makes up animals' claws (like cats or dogs).
1075652
Did you know that when a person dies, their fingernails and hair keep growing. Now the bones, I know that the bone marrow dies, I don't know about tooth enamel.
626180
that depends on environment.  a warm, humid environment will deteriorate a corpse much faster than a cool, dry one.  For instance, extremely well preserved remains have been found high in mountainous regions thousands of years old.  But a body left in a swampy region will be extremely deteriorated within a matter of days or weeks.
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Yes, follicle cells like all cells have a life cycle. They only live for a period of time, if they don't then you'd have cancer. Once the follicle cell dies the hair falls off preventing it from growing longer.\n\nbtw, can't u answer with "God is amazing like that" for every question? Please.... I guess God is great so you don't have to think.
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A fingernail is produced by living skin cells in the finger. A fingernail consists of several parts including the nail plate (the visible part of the nail), the nail bed (the skin beneath the nail plate), the cuticle (the tissue that overlaps the plate and rims the base of the nail), the nail folds (the skin folds that frame and support the nail on three sides), the lunula (the whitish half-moon at the base of the nail) and the matrix (the hidden part of the nail unit under the cuticle). \n\nFingernails grow from the matrix. The nails are composed largely of keratin, a hardened protein (that is also in skin and hair). As new cells grow in the matrix, the older cells are pushed out, compacted and take on the familiar flattened, hardened form of the fingernail. \n\nThe average growth rate for nails is 0.1 mm each day (or 1 centimeter in 100 days). The exact rate of nail growth depends on numerous factors including the age and sex of the individual and the time of year. Fingernails generally grow faster in young people, in males, and in the summer. \n\nFingernails grow faster than toenails. The fingernails on the right hand of a righthanded person grow faster than those on their left hand, and vice versa.
127123
well, for one, calcium is inorganic, so incapable of reproduction. if anything grew, it would most likely be a fungus from under your fingernails or just in the soil.
818347
not so sure about the amount of time it takes for you to decompose. i guess it has alot to do with where you are  buried (temperarure and weather wise) and in what type of casket.  ive heard that things like hair and finger nails continue to grow after you are dead...im guessing your eyes and tongue dry out and eventually whither away.
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Yes, hair on the rest of your body also grows.\n\nEach hair, no matter where it is on your body, head, leg, face or inside your ear, is programmed to grow to a certain length, then stop, live so long, and fall out. \n\nHow about facial hair? It obviously grows constantly, or guys would not have to shave it off all the time. Mustaches, beards and eyebrow hairs fall out when they reach maturity, and if you don't trim it, will grow to the same length each time before falling out. \n\nEach of your hundreds of thousands of hairs on your head are on rotating growth cycles, with about a 100 hairs falling off every day.\n\nEach one is on its own random cycle so you don't lose them all on one day. Your whole body works like that. \n\nToday, several million of your bloods cells died, and today the same amount were born. Everything dies and regenerates. Your stomach cells dissolve and are replaced every few days, bone cells take much longer. Every 7 years, there is not one cell in your body that is left from 7 years ago.\n\nSo every 7 years, you are totally new. That's why when someone asks how old I am, I always say 7 years old. \n\nWe are like a wave in the ocean...it is not a moving hunk of water in the shape of a wave moving as a unit from ocean to shore. It is a moving pattern, made of NEW water every few feet. The wave, like your body, just retains the pattern of you, not the specific stuff of which you are made.
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This is a common misconception.\n\nNails, hair etc do NOT continue to grow after death - it is merely the illusion of your skin contracting around the follicles etc that makes it appear so.
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hair, because hair does not live once out of the follicle.
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yes, and i donate bloond too. when i die i think they will take any parts that are useable. they can have any thing they want i will not need it where i am going(hevean). when my cousion died on oct 11 they took his eyes, and bones . they most likly took other things too. i guess you could tell his bones were taken because if you tuched him he would of felt soft.
319596
NO.  It grows from the top and widens at the base as it gets older.  You initials stay in the same place as where you carved them.
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The growth of human hair\n\nEach human head carries roughly 100,000 hair follicles. \nEach follicle can grow many hairs over a lifetime: on average, each grows a new hair around twenty times. \nNot all these follicles are actively growing hairs at any one time. From the moment when it is first formed, each follicle undergoes repeated cycles of active growth and rest. The length of the cycle varies with the individual, and also with the part of the body on which the hair is growing. \nThe hairs on an adult scalp do not grow in unison, as they do in an unborn baby. They are 'out of cycle' with each other. If this were not so, everyone would go temporarily bald from time to time. \nThe growing and shedding of hair as a whole seems to happen at random, but for each hair follicle the process is precisely controlled. No one knows for certain, however, exactly how the body controls these cycles. \nPlucking a hair from a follicle brings forward the next period of hair growth in that follicle\nOver the years, the number of follicles capable of growing hair declines naturally. The decline is especially noticeable on the top of the head. Some follicles increasingly produce only fine, short non-pigmented hairs that look more like vellus hairs than terminal hairs. In older women, this leads to a general thinning of hair. In men it tends to lead to common baldness. If you look at a bald scalp you will see these fine, poorly pigmented hairs.
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No manufactured product can re-grow hair..\nFingernails grow an average of 1/8 th inch after death occurs..\nThe average size for women in the US is 16 misses..(2003)\nMajority of bald men are married..
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It would depend on a lot of factors.  How much tissue was removed, etc.  As for the bone, if some of it was removed, as in an amputation, it will not grow back.  Follow your doctor's advice, keep it clean, and it shouldn't take too long...especially if you're a healthy person otherwise.  Make sure to eat healthy foods too...good nutrition promotes healing!