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Usage examples of alopecia.

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

As the aeroplane tore higher into the thin atmosphere, out of the window Mandelstim could see the many, many camps, each a white clearing in the forest, like patches of nervous alopecia in a dark green beard.

He said it was a hardy winter variety of alopecia that flourishes in the frost.

When later Connie had drawn attention to it, he had informed her that it was a rare flaming alopecia plant.

Connie discovers that alopecia is a scalp condition and not a variety of rare winter-flowering plant?

As usual, when I used the loo I found that someone with pubic alopecia had beaten me to it.

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 accompanying illustration shows a case in which there was osseous depression of the cranium and a localized alopecia.

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

As the aeroplane tore higher into the thin atmosphere, out of the window Mandelstim could see the many, many camps, each a white clearing in the forest, like patches of nervous alopecia in a dark green beard.

Monica and everyone else learned that the type of mange from which he suffered was called alopecia areata, and everywhere harmless, afflicted citizens wrote to the papers protesting that this ailment was not a mark of turpitude.

Seen from above, illuminated in the evening, the city looks like a head with patches of alopecia areata.