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  1. Hair Loss (National Library of Medicine)  
    You lose up to 100 hairs from your scalp every day. That's normal, and in most people, those hairs grow back. But many men -- and some women -- lose hair as they grow older. You can also lose ...
  2. Hair Problems (National Library of Medicine)  
    The average person has 5 million hairs. Hair grows all over your body except on your lips, palms, and the soles of your feet. It takes about a month for healthy ...
  3. ... appear to play a major role in determining hair texture—straight, wavy, or curly—and the thickness of individual strands of hair. Studies suggest that different genes influence hair texture ...
  4. Hair color is determined by the amount of a pigment called melanin in hair. An abundance of one type of melanin, called eumelanin, gives people black or brown hair. An abundance of another pigment, called pheomelanin, gives ...
  5. Uncombable hair syndrome is a condition that is characterized by dry, frizzy hair that cannot be combed flat. This condition develops in childhood, often between ...
  6. Cartilage-hair hypoplasia is a disorder of bone growth characterized by short stature (dwarfism) with other skeletal abnormalities; fine, sparse hair (hypotrichosis); ...
  7. Keratoderma with woolly hair is a group of related conditions that affect the skin and hair and in many cases increase the risk ...
  8. Trichorrhexis nodosa is a common hair problem in which thickened or weak points (nodes) along the hair shaft cause your hair to break off easily.
  9. A hair transplant is a surgical procedure to improve baldness. ... During a hair transplant, hairs are moved from an area of thick growth to bald areas. Most hair transplants are done ...
  10. Most of the time, women have fine hair above their lips and on their chin, chest, abdomen, or back. The growth of coarse dark hair in these areas (more typical of ...
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