male pattern baldness

1. 1.

   loss of hair on the crown of the head

   Synonymsmale-patterned baldness

   Broaderbaldness

Questions about male pattern baldness

What does male pattern baldness mean?

male pattern baldness means "loss of hair on the crown of the head".

What is another word for male pattern baldness?

Close synonyms include male-patterned baldness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is male pattern baldness a common word?

male pattern baldness 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.