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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In pathology, same as canities.

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  • noun The decrease or absence of melanin in head hair, eyebrows, or eyelashes.

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  • noun loss of color from the hair

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Examples

  • Medical observers do not usually think that dermatological features such as nevi, thinning of the skin and wrinkle formation, seborrheic keratosis, angiomas, seborrheic dermatitis, eczema, poliosis, graying of the hair, etc. are necessarily pathological in nature.

    Comments for Biotech Blog 2010

  • Medical observers do not usually think that dermatological features such as nevi, thinning of the skin and wrinkle formation, seborrheic keratosis, angiomas, seborrheic dermatitis, eczema, poliosis, graying of the hair, etc. are necessarily pathological in nature.

    Comments for Biotech Blog biotech 2010

  • Brush names relatively for at least 1 baldness cure propecia erroneously a poliosis (morning and evening) or as recommended by a agranulocytosis or physician.

    Wii-volution 2009

  • Brush names relatively for at least 1 baldness cure propecia erroneously a poliosis (morning and evening) or as recommended by a agranulocytosis or physician.

    Wii-volution 2009

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