trichology

English

Etymology

From tricho- +‎ -logy, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌɪˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

Noun

trichology (uncountable)

1. 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.

Related terms

• trichological
• trichologist

Translations

knowledge or study of hair

• Estonian: juustehooldusteadus
• Finnish: trikologia
• French: trichologie (fr) f
• Gujarati: કેશવિજ્ઞાન (keśvijñān)
• Hungarian: hajgyógyászat (hu), trichológia (hu)
• Indonesian: trikologi
• Italian: tricologia (it) f
• Polish: trychologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: tricologia (pt) f
• Romanian: tricologie (ro)
• Russian: трихология (ru) (trixologija)
• Sinhalese: කේෂ විද්‍යාව (kēṣa widyāwa)
• Tamil: மயிரியல் (mayiriyal)