baldness

baldness /bald·ness/ (bawld´nes) alopecia, especially of the scalp.

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male pattern baldness  see androgenetic alopecia, under alopecia.

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bald·ness (bôldns)

n.

The lack of all or a significant part of the hair on the head and sometimes on other parts of the body.

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baldness

absence of hair; alopecia.

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pattern baldness

occurs in dogs as hair loss of the ears in Dachshunds, predominantly males; hair loss on the ventral neck, caudomedial thighs and tail in American water spaniels and Portuguese water dogs; and hair loss on the postauricular areas, ventral and neck and ventral body in dogs of several small breeds.