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What is the scientific name for hair loss?
The general name is alopecia. It comes in several degrees:Androgenic alopecia or "male pattern baldness" (the most common form)Male and female pattern alopecia (androgenic alopecia, or androgenetic alopecia or alopecia androgenetica),Alopecia areata (the loss of some of the hair from the head)Alopecia totalis (the loss of all head hair)alopecia universalis (the loss of all hair from the head and the body)
What are the others names for alopecia areata?
Alopecia areata refers to the autoimmune skin condition that results in the loss of hair on the scalp and on the body. Alopecia totalis is a progression of Alopecia areatathat results in total hair loss of the scalp. Alopecia universalis is a progression of Alopecia areata that results in total hair loss of the body.
What is it called if you have hair loss?
Alopecia
What is the name when your hair falls out?
Alopecia or hair loss
What tests are needed to diagnose alopecia?
Alopecia is the loss of hair from the head and the body. Alopecia hair loss can be caused by hair pulling, pony tails, hair product chemicals, or a medical cause like an iron deficency.
What are the most common types of abnormal hair loss?
Are androgenic alopecia, alopecia areata, and post partum alopecia.
What does alopecia mean in the medical field?
Hair loss.
Does everyone with alopecia areata lose all their hair?
Not really, It depends on which alopecia you are suffering from. Alopecia Areata Totallis would describe to the loss of hair throughout the scalp meanwhile Alopecia Areata Universalis refers to loss of hair throughout the body. Source http://www.alopecia-areata-cure.com.
The total loss of hair on all parts of the body is known as universalis?
Alopecia universalis
What are the characteristics of the disease alopecia?
Alopecia is a form of hair loss, and it can be hereditary. It is caused by many different things but mainly the immune system attacks the hair follicles and causes damage to include hair loss. Caused by aging,illness,medications and malnutrition, the effects of alopecia can be permanent.
What rhymes with Alecia?
Alopecia..... a condition that causes round patches of hair loss, and can lead to total hair loss.
What is alopecia?
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disorder that causes your hair to come out, often in clumps the size and shape of a quarter. The amount of hair loss is different in everyone. Some people lose it only in a few spots. Others lose a lot. Sometimes, hair grows back but falls out again later. In others, hair grows back for good. There are different types of this condition. Alopecia areata is most common in its main form, but there are other, more rare types: Alopecia areata totalis means you’ve lost all the hair on your head. Alopecia areata universalis is the loss of hair over your entire body. Diffuse alopecia areata is a sudden thinning of your hair rather than lost patches. Ophiasis alopecia areata causes hair loss in a band shape around the sides and back of your head.
