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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