ALOPECIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alopecia mean? 

• ALOPECIA (noun)
  The noun ALOPECIA has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: ALOPECIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALOPECIA (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)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by skin abnormalities, alopecia, dystrophic nails, and abnormal tooth shape.

(Incontinentia Pigmenti, NCI Thesaurus)

Representative examples may include alopecia, male pattern baldness, hirsutism, and hair shaft disorders.

(Non-Neoplastic Hair Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of alopecia, erythroderma, desquamation, lymphadenopathy, and chronic diarrhea.

(Omenn Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms appear early in life and include breathing difficulties, feeding difficulties, alopecia, skin rash, and lethargy.

(Holocarboxylase Synthetase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Associated clinical signs and symptoms are nail atrophy, alopecia, and hyperpigmentation.

(Gastric Cronkhite Canada Polyposis, NCI Thesaurus)

Used topically in the treatment of psoriasis, dermatoses, and alopecia areata, it is also used in biomedical research due to its effect on EGFR autophosphorylation.

(Anthralin, NCI Thesaurus)

If left untreated, it leads to vision and hearing loss, infections, alopecia and ataxia.

(Biotinidase Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Alopecia can be a side effect of some cancer treatments.

(Alopecia, NCI Dictionary)