alopecia

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Male pattern baldness or androgenic alopecia is the most common type and basically means that the hairs you lose naturally are not being replaced quickly enough and this is mostly due to a by-product of testosterone called DHT.

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  1. noun Loss of hair; baldness.

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  1. Latin alōpecia, fox-mange, from Greek alōpekiā, from alōpēx, alōpek-, fox; see wl̥p-ē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from French alopécie, from Latin alopecia, from Greek ἀλωπεκία, a disease like the mange of foxes, in which the hair falls off, from ἀλώπηξ (ἀλωπεκ-), a fox, possibly akin to L. vulpes, a fox: see Vulpes.
 

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/æləˈpisiə/
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