What is "baldness"

Usage examples of "baldness".

I was handed along all the way from alopecia, which used to be called baldness, to zoster, which used to be known as shingles.

At age sixteen, I developed alopecia areata, a condition that causes patches of baldness in an otherwise healthy head of hair.

Richard, with the wisp of hair pasted across baldness common to every senior French functionary, alopecia being the natural consequence of chicanery, was even better.

The young image was compounded by his clothes, he wore a coat from Dexter Wong, black leather Prada trousers and the new Nike cross trainers, his hair was shaved to mask his baldness and his arms were muscled and buffed from gym training.

Abaldar Yulan, small enough to make his quite ordinary brown gelding seem immense, a fiery man with the nails of his little fingers painted green who wore a black wig to conceal his baldness, and Lisaine Jarath, a gray-haired woman from Seandar itself, whose pale plump face and blue eyes were a study in serenity.

He combed the last tufts of hair at his temples upward and plastered them with brilliantine to the middle of his shining skull as a solution to total baldness.

Beresford, a tall, thin, relaxed man with tufted black eyebrows, a horseshoe ring of greying hair fringing the sunburnt baldness of his head, and lively hazel eyes twiligh in the lined brown leather of his face, came along only for the peace, comfort, and food: the company of the great left him cold, a fact vastly appreciated by captain Bullen, who shared his sentiments exactly.

She looks at the floor and sees all the hair that has fallen and she cries, forgetting the blindness and polio, seeing only baldness.

In his presence I became uncomfortably aware of my male-patterned baldness and slight, unathletic paunch.

He was a quaint little figure in his black, unclerical suit, and the warm cloth cap of a like hue drawn carefully over a wide expanse of baldness which Nature had imposed upon him.

He was a thin, stoop-shouldered individual afflicted with the baldness gene that had not yet been edited out of the human pool because of possible allelomorphic benefits.

My head-gear may be unique, but it is at least warm and it is also the only covering I can at present bestow upon my baldness.

I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness.

Many others, such as baldness, are probably Mendelian but not yet sufficiently supported by evidence.

Bugiardini, still moonfaced and round-eyed, showed a center patch of baldness that resembled a tonsure.