trichology
English edit
Etymology edit
From tricho- + -logy, from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trichology (uncountable)
- The science or study of hair.
- 1984, Human Heredity, page 336:
- The remaining chapters cover diseases of the hairy skin and summarize recent developments in laboratory and experimental trichology.
- 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
- They had spread themselves beneath the oaks and chestnuts and planted the green banks with tussocks of crocuses; it was more like some exercise in trichology than horticulture.
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Translations edit
knowledge or study of hair
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