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trichosis

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tri-chosis
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any disease or abnormality of the hair.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An overgrowth of hair; hairiness.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From tricho- + -osis.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

trichoses (plural)

Derived Forms

hypertrichosis hypotrichosis

Questions

What does trichosis mean?
Any disease or abnormality of the hair.
Where does trichosis come from?
From tricho- + -osis.

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