alopecia areata

[ ar-ee-ey-tuh, -ah-tuh ]

/ ˌær iˈeɪ tə, -ˈɑ tə /

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loss of hair in circumscribed patches.

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<New Latin: circumscribed alopecia

Mamerow’s experience is typical for patients with alopecia areata, a condition in which hair loss occurs in random patches.
A New Frontier to Fight This Hair-Loss Disease|Charu Kasturi|March 2, 2021|Ozy
Researchers have found that a drug approved for rheumatoid arthritis helped a patient suffering from alopecia halt his hair loss.
Can This Arthritis Drug Cure Baldness?|Erin Cunningham|June 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It signaled the arrival of an autoimmune disease called alopecia areata.
An Epidemic of Absence: Destroying the Bugs in Our Bodies Can Be Dangerous to Our Health|Moises Velasquez-Manoff|September 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Alopecia areata and morphœa have been observed associated with it.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon

I was handed along all the way from alopecia, which used to be called baldness, to zoster, which used to be known as shingles.
Over the Teacups|Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Alopecia areata is characterized by the development of round patches more or less completely denuded of hair.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2|Various
By alopecia is meant loss of hair, either partial or complete.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin|Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Alopecia areata, on the other hand, affects both sexes with equal frequency, but affects them at different ages.
The Sexual Life of the Child|Albert Moll

alopecia areata

[ âr′ē-ā′tə ]

Hair loss in circumscribed, noninflamed areas of the scalp, eyebrows and beard.alopecia circumscripta