hypertrichosis
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- noun
- /ˌhaɪpərtrɪˈkoʊsɪs/
- Specialized
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hipertricosis
- People with hypertrichosis often have hair covering areas where most individuals have little or no hair.
Examples
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Hypertrichosis is a rare condition that causes excessive hair growth on the face and body.
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That word is hypertrichosis, it's a genetic condition, it means, I was born like this.
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My condition is called hypertrichosis.
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Eve has hypertrichosis, a condition where the entire body is covered in a thick mat of hair.
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The medical community recognizes hypertrichosis as a disorder involving abnormal hair growth patterns.
Synonyms
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Too much hair growth on women in places like the face or chest where hair is usually thin
A condition in which someone has more hair than usual on parts of the body that normally have little hair
How Hairy
Surface Forms
Morphology
hypertrichosis = trichosis (opaque) = hyper + trich + osis
The word is a medical prefixation over the specialized term 'trichosis', so its meaning is not readily inferable for an average learner.
Etymology
Hypertrichosis breaks into parts: hyper- 'over', as in hyperactive, trich- 'hair', and -osis 'condition'. So it literally means 'a condition of too much hair', which explains why it describes too much hair growth on parts of the body.