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Hair loss

The thinning of hair on the scalp and associated prevention and treatment.

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prescription

Health care; Hair loss

A physician's order for the preparation and administration of a drug or device for a patient. A prescription has several parts. They include the superscription or heading with the symbol "R" or "Rx", ...

prognosis

Health care; Hair loss

1. The expected course of a disease. 2. The patient's chance of recovery. The prognosis predicts the outcome of a disease and therefore the future for the patient. His prognosis is grim, for example, ...

pregnancy

Health care; Hair loss

The state of carrying a developing embryo or fetus within the female body. This condition can be indicated by positive results on an over-the-counter urine test, and confirmed through a blood test, ...

pregnant

Health care; Hair loss

The state of carrying a developing fetus within the body.

postmenopausal

Health care; Hair loss

After the menopause. Postmenopausal is defined formally as the time after which a woman has experienced twelve (12) consecutive months of amenorrhea (lack of menstruation) without a period.

onset

Health care; Hair loss

In medicine, the first appearance of the signs or symptoms of an illness as, for example, the onset of rheumatoid arthritis. There is always an onset to a disease but never to the return to good ...

physiologic

Health care; Hair loss

Something that is normal, neither due to anything pathologic nor significant in terms of causing illness.

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