Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Loss of hair; baldness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Baldness; loss of hair. Also written alopecy.
Wiktionary
- n. Baldness.
- n. Deficiency of the hair, may be caused by failure to grow or loss after growth.
- n. Loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers, which either happens naturally or is caused by disease.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Loss of the hair; baldness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- Latin alōpecia, fox-mange, from Greek alōpekiā, from alōpēx, alōpek-, fox; see wl̥p-ē- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The second condition is known as alopecia, a more inflammatory response.”
“At the age of ten, I began to suffer from an autoimmune skin condition called alopecia areata.”
Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball
“Villanueva suffers from an autoimmune skin condition called alopecia areata which affects over five million North Americans.”
Simon & Schuster: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball
“BAMBERGER: I have alopecia, which is an autoimmune idiopathic hair loss.”
“Hair loss - known as alopecia in the medical field - assumes different forms.”
“The particular hair-loss case of my friend's younger son is medically termed alopecia areata.”
“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?”
“When she began losing her hair at age 10 because of a condition called alopecia areata, Martell didn't let her hair loss stand in the way of her dream.”
“Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure.”
“Most of the children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alopecia’.
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diseases that make lovely baby girl's names
usually i try to restrict this to sexually transmitted diseases, but some of the others are just so musical. Syphilis, it should be noted, would make a lovely boy's name, but that is outside the sc...
gonorrhea, chlamydia, roseola, rubella, angina, atrophy, candida, cholera, jaundice, palsy, leukemia, alopecia and 50 more...
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