alopecia areata

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   patchy baldness

   Broaderalopecia

Questions about alopecia areata

What does alopecia areata mean?

alopecia areata means "patchy baldness".

Is alopecia areata a common word?

alopecia areata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.