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Abstract
Absence of hair from areas where it is normally present.
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- Baldness
- Hair Loss
- Hair Losses
- Loss, Hair
- Losses, Hair
- Alopecia Cicatrisata
- Alopecia, Androgenetic
- Alopecia, Male Pattern
- Androgenetic Alopecia
- Androgenic Alopecia
- Baldness, Male Pattern
- Female Pattern Baldness
- Male Pattern Baldness
- Pattern Baldness
- Pseudopelade
- Alopecia Cicatrisatas
- Alopecia, Androgenic
- Alopecias, Androgenic
- Androgenic Alopecias
- Baldness, Female Pattern
- Baldness, Pattern
- Male Pattern Alopecia
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Alopecia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000505. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000505
- Alopecia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alopecia
- Alopecia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2697787