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hypertrichosis

[ hahy-per-tri-koh-sis ]

noun

  1. excessive growth of hair.


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He and his team of curators were gazing, fascinated, at a 16th-century portrait of Antonietta Gonzales, a girl with hypertrichosis, a rare congenital condition that causes excessive facial hair growth.

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Flickering Myth calls the film a “dark fairy tale” about a lonely, outcast boy with hypertrichosis — a condition that causes abnormal hair growth over the face and body — who goes off in search of his mother.

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The boy, Paul, suffers from hypertrichosis, or “werewolf syndrome,” which is a thing.

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The children who took the mislabeled medicine, some of them babies, began growing hair all over their bodies, a rare condition known as hypertrichosis, Spain’s health minister said on Wednesday.

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Giving the infants minoxidil created an appearance of hypertrichosis, also known as "werewolf syndrome", a rare condition that causes excessive thick hair growth over the body, often in unusual places, such as the face.

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