Thinning hair is a symptom for some diseases.
Also known as:
- Hair loss,
- Thinning hair,
- Baldness
Alopecia
Medicine
Risk Factors:
- Discoid lupus erythematosus
- Chemotherapy
- Trichotillomania
- Alopecia mucinosa
- Pseudopelade of Brocq
- Androgenetic alopecia
- Family history of hair loss
- Tinea capitis
- Telogen effluvium
- Genodermatosis
Symptoms:
Parent Disease:
Associated medical specialties:
Symptom of:
- Pellagra
- Syphilis
- Iron deficiency anemia
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Lichen planus
- Kwashiorkor
- Ectodermal dysplasia
Parent Classification:
Diseases with this Risk Factor:
Quotation Subject
Quotations About This Subject:
- Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
- The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
- There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
