Trichotillomania Definition

trĭkō-tĭlə-mānē-ə, -mānyə
noun
The compulsion to tear or pluck out the hair on one's head and face and often to ingest it.
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Origin of Trichotillomania

  • From Ancient Greek θρίξ (thriks, “hair") (genitive: τριχός (trikhos)) + τίλλω (tillō, “I pull out, pluck") + μανία (mania, “madness").

    From Wiktionary

  • tricho– Greek tillein to pluck hair –mania

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Trichotillomania Sentence Examples

  • Trichotillomania is the most common cause of hair loss in children.

  • First described in 1889, trichotillomania is a psychiatric disorder, the result of which is alopecia or hair loss, caused by repeated pulling of one's hair from, most often the head, followed by the eyelashes and eye brows.

  • The pattern of alopecia in trichotillomania varies among patients and the degree of hair loss will range from a barely noticeable thinning to total loss of hair.

  • Trichotillomania is recurrent pulling out of hair.

  • Trichotillomania is characterized by recurrent pulling out of one's hair to produce noticeable hair loss.

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