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baldness
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baldness /bald·ness/ (bawld´nes) alopecia, especially of the scalp.
male pattern baldness  see androgenetic alopecia, under alopecia.

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.

baldness
Etymology: ME, balled
absence of hair, especially from the scalp. See also alopecia.

baldness [bawld´nes]
total or partial loss or absence of hair, especially absence of the hair from the scalp; called also alopecia.
common baldness androgenetic alopecia; in men called common male baldness and in women called common female baldness.
male pattern baldness see androgenetic alopecia.

baldness
absence of hair; alopecia.

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.

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A. it does work but there is some side affects, as in E.D. while you are on the med.

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