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trichotillomania

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

noun

, Psychiatry.
  1. a compulsion to pull out one's hair.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of trichotillomania1

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

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