Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Loss of hair; baldness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Baldness; loss of hair. Also written
alopecy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Loss of the hair; baldness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Baldness . - noun pathology
Deficiency of the hair, may be caused byfailure to grow or loss after growth. - noun medicine
Loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers, which either happens naturally or is caused by disease.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The second condition is known as alopecia, a more inflammatory response.
SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010
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The second condition is known as alopecia, a more inflammatory response.
SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010
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Villanueva suffers from an autoimmune skin condition called alopecia areata which affects over five million North Americans.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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At the age of ten, I began to suffer from an autoimmune skin condition called alopecia areata.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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Villanueva suffers from an autoimmune skin condition called alopecia areata which affects over five million North Americans.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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At the age of ten, I began to suffer from an autoimmune skin condition called alopecia areata.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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BAMBERGER: I have alopecia, which is an autoimmune idiopathic hair loss.
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Hair loss - known as alopecia in the medical field - assumes different forms.
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The particular hair-loss case of my friend's younger son is medically termed alopecia areata.
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Let's get to another e-mail from Mike in New York, who wants to know, "Is there any hope for those who are afflicted with a condition known as alopecia areata?"
qms commented on the word alopecia
Oh, fight like an angry polecat
But chemo won’t care about that;
Soon old alopecia,
That gaunt gallows preacher,
Will leave you a naked mole-rat.
April 12, 2019