Flashcards on Hair Loss and Alopecia

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Men with more severe hair loss experience significantly more negative social and emotional effects, are more preoccupied with their baldness, and make more effort to conceal or compensate for their hair loss.

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Social and emotional effects of severe hair loss.

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An image showing alopecia universalis.

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Visual representation of alopecia universalis.

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Dermal papilla

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A small, cone-shaped elevation located at the base of the hair follicle that fits into the hair bulb.

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Asians and Native Americans tend to have this type of hair.

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Extremely straight hair

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Hair density

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The number of individual hair strands on one square inch of the scalp.

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Helix

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Created when the polypeptide chains intertwine with each other.

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Hydrophilic

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Water attracting head of surfactant molecule.

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Lanthionine bonds

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Hydroxide chemical hair relaxers break disulfide bonds and convert them to lanthionine bonds.

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Medium hair texture

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The most common hair texture.

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Ringed hair

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A variety of canities, characterized by alternating bands of gray and pigmented hair throughout the length of the hair strand.