Hair loss glossary

These pages contain specialised terms on hair loss that not everyone may be familiar with. I spent a long time reading up on the subject and had to look up the vocabulary from a wide range of sources. Here is a collection of the terms used:

• Alopecia
• Alopecia areata
• Amino acids
• Anagen phase
• Androgenic hair loss
• Arginine
• Biotin
• DHT
• Diffuse hair loss
• Dihydrotestosterone
• Effluvium
• Hair cycle
• Hair follicle
• Hair loss
• Hair papilla
• Hair shaft
• Hereditary hair loss
• Ornithine
• Scalp biopsy
• Spot baldness
• Telogen phase
• Trichogram
• Trichoscan

 

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