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hypertrichosis

hair disease characterized by hair growth that is abnormal in quantity or location
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hypertrichosis
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Summary

hypertrichosis is a class of disease[1]. hypertrichosis ranks in the top 8% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,662 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: hair diseases[3], epidermal disease[4], genetic hair anomaly[5], disease[6]
  • Commons category: Hypertrichosis[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:People with hypertrichosis[8]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C79597[10]
  • Health specialty: dermatology[11]
  • Drug or therapy used for treatment: (RS)-eflornithine[12]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_420[13], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:420[14], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000998[15], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_79365[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[17]

Why It Matters

hypertrichosis has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] hypertrichosis is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

dermatology disease Julia Pastrana

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . NDF-RT. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Subclass of → hair diseases, epidermal disease, genetic hair anomaly +1
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine
    Health specialty → dermatology
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
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