Baldness

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Baldness is the partial or complete lack of hair. The degree and pattern of baldness can vary greatly, but its most common cause is male and female pattern baldness, which is also known as androgenic alopecia, alopecia androgenetica or alopecia seborrheica. Pattern balding should not be confused with alopecia areata, which commonly involves patchy hair loss. There are also extreme forms of alopecia areata. These are alopecia totalis, which involves the loss of all head hair, and the most extreme form, alopecia universalis, which is the loss of all hair of the body...