Glossary for Thinning hair

Medical terms related to Thinning hair or mentioned in this section include:

• Alopecia Areata: A condition where hair loss occurs in patches for unknown reasons. Although the condition often disappears within a year, it often reoccurs.
• Anorexia Nervosa: A disorder where a distorted sense of body image leads to self-starvation to the point of death in some cases.
• Autoimmune thyroid diseases: Autoimmune diseases of the thyroid gland.
• Baldness: Loss of scalp hair
• Cockayne syndrome: A rare genetic disorder characterized by a senile-like appearance, hearing and vision impairment and sun sensitive skin.
• EEC syndrome: A rare genetic disorder characterized by absence of fingers and toes, ectodermal dysplasia and cleft lip or cleft palate.
• Ectrodactyly-ectodermal dysplasia-cleft lip/cleft palate: A rare inherited condition characterized by abnormalities of the fingers, toes, hair, glands, eyes anr urinary tract.
• Face symptoms: Symptoms affecting the face
• Francois dyscephalic syndrome: A rare genetic disorder characterized by very small stature, microphthalmia, small pinched nose and hypotrichosis.
• Graves disease: A condition which is an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid resulting hyperthyroidism
• Hair loss: Loss or thinning of head or body hair
• Hair symptoms: Symptoms affecting the hair
• Head symptoms: Symptoms affecting the head or brain
• Hooft disease: A rare disorder characterized by mental and physical retardation, red rash and low blood lipid level.
• Hyperthyroidism: The excessive activity of the thyroid gland
• Hypothyroidism: The decreased activity of the thyroid gland
• Hypotrichosis simplex: Abnormally sparse hair caused by a genetic anomaly.
• Incontinentia Pigmenti: A rare genetic skin pigmentation disorder characterized by eye, teeth, bone, nail and hair malformations as well as central nervous abnormalities and mental deficiency.
• Menopause: End of female reproductive years
• Myxedema: The most severe form of hypothyroidism characterized by swelling of extremities and face.
• OLEDAID: A rare syndrome characterized mainly by a weak immuned system, bone problems, lymphoedema and hair, teeth and nail abnormalities. Death usually occurs during the first few years of life due to overwhelming infections.
• Otospondylomegaepiphyseal dysplasia: A rare genetic disorder where abnormal bone growth causes hearing loss, skeletal abnormalities and characteristic facial features.
• Patchy hair loss: The occurrence of patchy hair loss
• Polycystic ovary syndrome: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine disorder that affects approximately 5% of all women.
• Pubic hair loss: Loss or thinning of hair in the pubic region
• Sener syndrome: A very rare syndrome characterized mainly by an unusual facial appearance and an unusual condition where there a cystic spaces around blood vessels as they enter the brain.
• Sjogren-Larsson syndrome: A rare inherited neurological and skin disorder characterized by mental retardation, spastic paraplegia and thickened scaly skin (ichthyosis). The condition involves a deficiency of fatty alcohol oxidoreductase which causes an accumulation of long-chain fatty alcohols.
• Sjögren-Larsson syndrome: A rare inherited neurological and skin disorder characterized by mental retardation, spastic paraplegia and thickened scaly skin (ichthyosis). The condition involves a deficiency of fatty alcohol oxidoreductase which causes an accumulation of long-chain fatty alcohols.
• Thin hair: Normal hair fall is approximately 100-125 hair per day. True hair loss occurs when lost hairs are not regrown or when the daily hair shed exceeds 125 hairs
• Thinness: Underweight and thin
• Thinning hair in children:
• Thyroid disorders: Any disorder of the thyroid gland.
• Tinea capitis: A condition which is characterized by tinea of the scalp
• Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome type 1: A rare genetic disorder characterized by bulbous nose, sparse hair and coning of epiphyses.
• Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome type 3: A rare inherited disorder involving hair, face, teeth, and bone abnormalities. The type and severity of symptoms is variable.
• Weaver Syndrome: A syndrome that is considered a variant of the Marshall-Smith syndrome
• Zinc deficiency: When there is a deficiency of zinc in an individuals body

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