The inner root sheath consists of
- (1) a delicate cuticle next the hair, composed of a single layer of imbricated scales with atrophied nuclei;
- (2) Huxley's layer
- (3) Henle's layer
The term "trichilemmal" refers to the outer root sheath.
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