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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).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Alopecia

DomainDefinitions

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": CyclophosphamideGYNERIUM 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

DomainTitle

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

ThumbnailDescription & 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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Alopecia

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Hair Loss Hair 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)92.31%12101,599
Noun (proper)7.69%1339,140
                    Total100.00%13N/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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Alopecia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6F 70 65 63 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101111 01110000 01100101 01100011 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#111 &#112 &#101 &#99 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006F 0070 0065 0063 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3578818271697567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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