male-patterned baldness

1. 1.

   loss of hair on the crown of the head

   Synonymsmale pattern baldness

   Broaderbaldness

Questions about male-patterned baldness

What does male-patterned baldness mean?

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

What is another word for male-patterned baldness?

Close synonyms include male pattern 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-patterned baldness a common word?

male-patterned 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.