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ALOPECIA
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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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