Baldness
(bawld'nes) alopecia, especially absence of hair from the scalp.
common male baldness: male pattern alopecia; thinning or absence of hair
from around the vertex of the scalp, and recession of the frontal scalp margin
on each side of the forehead, forming the so-called "professor angles."
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 26th edition, (c) 1985, W.B. Saunders
Company.
Date last modified: August 29, 1995.
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