Category: Ah-Al

Hair loss caused by injury to the scalp. Common causes include the use of caustic hair straighteners, especially those that include lye as an ingredient; stress traction injury from tight rollers and braiding; overheating of the hair shafts; and compulsive pulling out of hair (trichotillomania).

Loss of all hair on the entire body.

Loss of all scalp hair, with normal hair elsewhere on the body remaining.

Patchy baldness that typically begins with rapid hair loss on discrete areas of the scalp and sometimes progresses to complete baldness and even loss of body hair. The characteristic diagnostic finding is short, broken hairs called ‘exclamation point’ hairs. Alopecia areata affects both males and females and, most often, children and young adults. It seems to be caused by an autoimmune mechanism, wherein…

Baldness. There are many types of alopecia, each with a different cause. Alopecia may be localized to the front and top of the head as in common male pattern baldness. It may be patchy as in a condition called alopecia areata. A variant of alopecia involves the entire head and is called alopecia capitis totalis. The word “alopecia”…

This is a segmented RNA virus first identified in 2017 in China. Alongshan virus (ALSV) belongs to the jingmenvirus group of the family Flaviviridae. In northern China, patients who had this viral infection also experienced fever and illness. Medical professionals believe the virus spreads via tick bites. In addition to fever and a history of tick bites, headache was a symptom of…

Complete lack of speech, as in profound mental retardation or advanced dementia. Alogia is synonymous in this sense with aphasia. Poverty of speech, as commonly occurs in schizophrenia.From the Greek a-, without + logos, speech.

A gene on chromosome 2p13. Alstrom syndrome is caused by mutation of ALMS1.

Allulose is a monosaccharide, or simple sugar, that is absorbed by the body but not metabolized. Allulose is found in small quantities in wheat, jackfruit, figs, maple syrup, and other foods. It has been promoted as a substitute for sugar because it is low in calories and has 70% of the sweetness of sucrose (sugar). Possible side effects of…

The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment. MDs practice allopathic medicine. The term “allopathy” was coined in 1842 by C.F.S. Hahnemann to designate the usual practice of medicine (allopathy) as opposed to homeopathy, the system of therapy that…