trichotillomania

[ trik-uh-til-uh-mey-nee-uh ]

nounPsychiatry.
  1. a compulsion to pull out one's hair.

Origin of trichotillomania

1
1900–05; tricho- + Greek tíll(ein) to pluck, pull out + -o- + -mania

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