1. loss of hair, see alopecia.
2. in cattle and horses used to describe an animal with a white face. Called also baldy.
- b. faced — a horse with a blaze and a snip into a nostril conjoined.
- b. thighs syndrome — a condition of unknown cause occurring in racing Greyhounds about four weeks after commencing a training program. There is complete alopecia with no other abnormality of the skin on the caudolateral aspects of the thighs and sometimes also in the axilla and on the ventrolateral aspects of the chest.
