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alopecia

loss of hair from the head or body
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Summary

alopecia ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,146 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: hair diseases[2], skin and integumentary tissue symptom[3]
  • Commons category: Alopecia[4]
  • Has cause: heredity[5], hormone[6], disease[7], ageing[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Alopecia[9]
  • Facet of: women's health[10], Santé animale[11]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12], Otto's encyclopedia[13], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15], Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[16]
  • Has effect: bald head[17]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C50575[18]
  • Different from: bald head[19]
  • Health specialty: dermatology[20]
  • Drug or therapy used for treatment: minoxidil[21]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000440[22]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[23]

Why It Matters

alopecia has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] alopecia is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] ↑ . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0407838-alopecie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0407838-alopecie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
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