alopecia
MONDO:0004907Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names alopecia yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Hair loss usually from the scalp. It may result in bald spots or spread to the entire scalp or the entire epidermis. It may be androgenetic or caused by chemotherapeutic agents, compulsive hair pulling, autoimmune disorders or congenital conditions.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0004907), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (26)
- alopecia antibody deficiency
- alopecia areata
- alopecia mucinosa
- alopecia totalis
- alopecia universalis
- alopecia universalis onychodystrophy vitiligo
- alopecia-intellectual disability-hypergonadotropic hypogonadism syndrome
- alopecia, isolated
- atrichia with papular lesions
- central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia
- chemotherapy-induced alopecia
- ectodermal dysplasia alopecia preaxial polydactyly
- endocrine alopecia
- frontal fibrosing alopecia
- Graham Little-Piccardi-Lassueur syndrome
- hereditary hypotrichosis with recurrent skin vesicles
- hypotrichosis simplex
- hypotrichosis simplex of the scalp
- lichen planopilaris
- loose anagen syndrome
- microcephaly sparse hair intellectual disability seizures
- pseudopelade of Brocq
- Quinquaud's folliculitis decalvans
- Satoyoshi syndrome
- Slti-Salem syndrome
- telogen effluvium
Other names
2 names
Resolves to: alopecia
- Also called
- hair lossloss Of hair