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alopecian

alopecian adjective: suffering from or associated with hair loss.

Adjective

alopecian (comparative more alopecian, superlative most alopecian)

  1. Suffering from or associated with hair loss.
    • He'd landed on top; Caull had struck his alopecian skull on the pole from which the national banner rose.1986, J. N. Williamson, John Maclay, Wards of Armageddon, page 375
    • His comparative youth skilfully disguised, Graham-Hall had the advantage over Tear in a grey head of hair which made sense of his barber's-shop visits and also eliminated the novelist's physical resemblance — publicised by the December opera cover — to Michael Chance's alopecian Apollo.1990, George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood, Opera - Volume 41, Issues 1-6, pages 226–227

Noun

alopecian (plural alopecians)

  1. One who suffers from alopecia.
    • Most partners take their cue from how the alopecian handles the problem. One older woman commented: "If you work on believing that you are still attractive and lovable, and expect him to think so too, he will usually rise to the occasion!1992, Sheila Jacobs, The big fall: living with hair loss, page 146
    • Go to a support group. It gets easier knowing you are not alone. I don't intend to get over it, but I do intend to deal with it and support other alopecians.2008, United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Office on Women's Health, The healthy woman: a complete guide for all ages, page 314

Examples of alopecian in a sentence

  • This, we know, is peculiar to alopecian syphilis, as well as other diseases of syphilis, also of psoriasis.1997, J. Henry Allen, Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin, page 134:
  • To save on hairnets in his delicatessen, Santa hires only alopecians from the Appalachians.2017, Jeramy Dodds, Drakkar Noir:

Forms of alopecian

Adjective
comparativemore alopecian
superlativemost alopecian
Noun
pluralalopecians

Origin of alopecian

From alopecia + -an.

Questions about alopecian

What does alopecian mean?
Alopecian means suffering from or associated with hair loss.
How do you use alopecian in a sentence?
This, we know, is peculiar to alopecian syphilis, as well as other diseases of syphilis, also of psoriasis.
What part of speech is alopecian?
Alopecian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near alopecian in the dictionary

  1. alopecia pityrodes
  2. alopecia symptomatica
  3. alopecia totalis
  4. alopecia universalis
  5. alopecial
  6. alopecian
  7. alopecians
  8. alopecias
  9. alopecic
  10. alopecist
  11. alopecists

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