Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The compulsion to tear or pluck out the hair on one's head and face and often to ingest it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. a medical disorder in which the patient compulsively pulls his/her own hair out.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The habit of continually pulling out hairs from the beard, at the nasal orifices, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
Etymologies
Examples
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But rather than indulge in trichotillomania, do something about it.
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Often a harmless habit, in its most extreme form, the urge to constantly twirl or pull at hair is called trichotillomania, and it can lead to bald spots or thinning hair.
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The BBC has a news story on the genetics of a disorder called trichotillomania compulsive hair-pulling that typifies the way genetics discoveries are reported in the media.
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Chloe was diagnosed with a condition called trichotillomania around the time she started sixth grade at Roosevelt Middle School in 2010.
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"The story starts with a mouse mutant that has a very unusual behavior, which is very similar to the obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder in humans called trichotillomania, when patients compulsively remove all their body hair," explained Capecchi, who is a distinguished professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Parrots compulsively pluck their own feathers; dogs repetitively lick a paw or other fixed spot; humans develop a condition known as trichotillomania, in which they pull out strands of their hair.
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TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- A common health-food supplement might help ease the urges of people with a compulsive hair-pulling disorder called trichotillomania, U.S. researchers report.
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The 190-page book is a testimony of her life and her hair-pulling habit, called trichotillomania, or "trich."
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The disorder is called trichotillomania, and leaves sufferers with uncontrollable urges to pluck out the hair of their scalp, eyebrows and even eyelashes, often to the point of baldness.
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I have a disorder called trichotillomania that causes me to pull out my eyebrows.
madmouth commented on the word trichotillomania
one of the scariest compulsions, with its nightmarish image of swollen, be-plucked eyelids
October 30, 2009