ALOPECIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("alopecia" is a kind of...):

baldness; phalacrosis (the condition of having no hair on the top of the head)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "alopecia"):

alopecia areata (patchy baldness)

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