Alopecia

Definition: Alopecia

Alopecia

Noun

1. Loss of hair (especially on the head) or wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer).

Specialty Definitions: Alopecia

Domain	Definitions
Botanical	The state of being bald. Treated or prevented with Achras, Calocarpum, Capraria, Cocos, Colocasia, Giricidia, Guazuma, Gynerium, Persea, Stachytarpheta, Sterculia. (references)
Health	Absence of hair from areas where it is normally present. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Alopecia

English words defined with "alopecia": alopecia areata. (references)

Specialty definitions using "alopecia": Cyclophosphamide ♦ GYNERIUM SAGITTATUM, GYNOXYS PARVIFOLIA. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Alopecia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (alopecia), Italian (alopecia), Portuguese (alopecia), Spanish (alopecia).

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Commercial Usage: Alopecia

Domain	Title
Books	Alopecia and Vitiligo in Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome Type I (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations, 935) (reference) Alopecia Areata: Understanding and Coping With Hair Loss (reference) Hair Loss: Principles of Diagnosis and Management Alopecia (reference) Princess Alopecia (reference) The Girl With No Hair: Alopecia Areata (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Alopecia

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	This patient developed eyebrow alopecia during the secondary stage of syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat and swollen lymph glands.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Alopecia

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Hair LossHair loss (alopecia) is a common side effect of chemotherapy, but not all drugs cause hair loss. Your doctor can tell you if hair loss might occur with the drug or drugs you are taking. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Alopecia

"Alopecia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "Alopecia" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.31%	12	101,599
Noun (proper)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Alopecia

Expression using "alopecia": Alopecia Areata. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alopecia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
alopecia	1,036	alopecia cure	6
alopecia areata	414	alopecia areata photo	6
alopecia totalis	125	wig for alopecia	5
androgenetic alopecia	51	picture of alopecia areata	5
alopecia treatment	48	woman with alopecia	5
alopecia and universalis	25	alopecia in woman	5
alopecia female	20	alopecia endocrine feline	4
alopecia androgenetica	18	alopecia ariata	4
androgenic alopecia	17	canine alopecia	4
traction alopecia	16	alopecia areata cure	4
alopecia minoxidil	16	alopecia areata foundation	4
scarring alopecia	14	alopecia hair loss	4
cause of alopecia	14	alopecia symptom	4
treatment of alopecia areata	12	alopecia color mutant	4
alopecia in child	10	alopecia scarring treatment	4
cause of alopecia areata	10	alopecia areata recent study	4
alopecia aerata	9	seasonal flank alopecia	4
national alopecia areata foundation	8	alopecia support group	4
alopecia picture	8	alopecia dog	3
alopecia child	6	color dilution alopecia	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alopecia

Language		Translations for "alopecia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏تساقط الشعر (recede), ‏سقوط الشعر, ‏صلع (bald, baldness, become bald), ‏داء الثعلب. (various references)

Bulgarian		алопеция, плешивост (baldness, calvity). (various references)

Chinese		脱发症. (various references)

Danish		alopecia (deglabration). (various references)

Dutch		alopecie (defluxion of hair, hairlessness). (various references)

Finnish		pitkäaikainen kaljuus (chronic alopecia), krooninen alopesia (chronic alopecia). (various references)

French		alopécie. (various references)

German		Alopezie. (various references)

Greek		απόπτωση των τριχών της κεφαλής (defluxion of hair), αλωπεκίαση, αλωπεκία (alopecia 1, defluxion of hair, deglabration), τριχόπτωση (deglabration, epilation). (various references)

Italian		alopecia (defluxion of hair, deglabration). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		脱毛症 (baldness), 禿� �病 (loss of hair). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とくとうびょう (loss of hair), � つもうしょう (baldness). (various references)

Korean		탈모증. (various references)

Pig Latin		alopeciaay

Portuguese		alopecia (defluxion of hair, deglabration). (various references)

Romanian		peladã (pelade). (various references)

Russian		алопеция (baldness). (various references)

Spanish		alopecia (defluxion of hair, deglabration, hairlessness). (various references)

Turkish		kellik (baldness). (various references)

Ukranian		облисіння, лисина, полисіння, плішивість (baldness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự rụng tóc. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Alopecia

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alopecia": alopecias. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Alopecia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-o-p"
	-2 letters: aecial, apical, epical, palace, plaice, plicae, police.
	-3 letters: aecia, apace, coala, copal, ileac, oleic, palea, pical, pilea, place, plica.
	-4 letters: alae, alec, aloe, calo, cape, capo, ceil, ciao, clap, clip, clop, coal, coil, cola, cole, cope, epic, ilea, lace, laic, leap, lice, lipa, lipe, loca, loci, lope, olea, opal, paca, pace, pail, pale.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-o-p"
	+1 letter: alopecias.
	+2 letters: apothecial.
	+3 letters: archipelago, cyclopaedia, parfocalize, pedagogical, plagioclase.
	+4 letters: allelopathic, archesporial, archipelagos, complaisance, cyclopaedias, geographical, hypocalcemia, incomparable, kleptomaniac, metaphorical, operatically, paleobotanic, paleographic, parfocalized, parfocalizes, placentation, plagioclases, speciational, spectatorial, valpolicella.
	+5 letters: aperiodically, archipelagoes, autocephalies, campanologies, cephalization, companionable, comparatively, complaisances, coplanarities, demographical, encapsulation, encyclopaedia, expectational, hypocalcemias, kleptomaniacs, laparoscopies, nonalphabetic, paleomagnetic, parfocalities, particleboard, pedagogically, pharmacopeial, placentations, plantocracies, praxeological, prevocational, problematical, reapplication, valpolicellas.
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