(n.) The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our knowledge of the pathogenesis of ordinary baldness is far from complete but a genetic predisposition is necessary and androgen production must be present.
(2) Antiandrogen therapy for androgen-induced baldness is in its infancy.
(3) "The idea that there is this contrast between a world of subtlety, and a world of bald, flat generalisations doesn't sound like what it's like at all.
(4) A left scalp skin flap (2.5 by 7 cm) based on the superficial temporal artery and vein was transferred to the bald area, with microvascular anastomosis to the superficial temporal vessels on the right side.
(5) One milliliter of solution was applied twice daily over 150 cm2 of bald scalp to each subject for 6 days.
(6) T-shirts were rush-printed overnight, showing his bald, burly head above the logo: "Hi, I'm Joe Plumber and Obama is a punk."
(7) She had frontal balding, mid-face hypoplasia, a small nose, macrostomia with down-turned corners of the mouth, gingival hypertrophy, and hypoplasia or absence of the clitoris.
(8) Improvements in the technique and instrumentation used in hair transplantation have led to the production of better grafts, a more natural hairline, a greater number of grafts from a donor site, the effective control of postoperative bleeding, and the reduction of large areas of baldness prior to hair transplantation.
(9) The operative indications are difficult because of the variety of baldness and the multiple techniques available.
(10) These operations allow massive transfer of genetically determined permanent hair to the cosmetically deficient areas of the scalp, whether the condition of baldness is the result of injury or hereditary factors.
(11) Use of this method for the treatment of bitemporal recessions and type 6 male pattern baldness is discussed in detail.
(12) Currently, the technique is most frequently used in scalp surgery for correction of male pattern baldness.
(13) Reported effects of balding reflected considerable preoccupation, moderate stress or distress, and copious coping efforts.
(14) The pathology of the bald scalp showed the presence of tubular epithelial structures devoid of hair bulbs extending from the epidermis to the deep dermis and the superficial hypodermis.
(15) The main problem in conventional operations for baldness has certainly been the resultant scar.
(16) Six new types of developmental mutants were obtained from the bald variant bld-1 after treatment with mutagens (UV light, gamma radiation, nitrous acid) and after natural selection.
(17) Since substantial 3 beta HSD activity was present in the cytosol, and cytosol of B glands showed increased 3 beta HSD activity, the increased conversion of DHA to AD may be a critical step for androgenic action and may be responsible for excessive androgenicity in male-pattern baldness.
(18) Larger "bald heads" occur favourable at the "deep" acetabula revealing high CE-angles and at low CCD-angles.
(19) In the patient with LGD on entry, there was an aggregate of very large cells covered by short microvilli with bald patches.
(20) The established format sounds a bit staid until Balding starts discussing it.
Wig
Definition:
(n.) A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
(n.) An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
(v. t.) To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
(n.) A kind of raised seedcake.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of scalp hypothermia in connection with chemotherapy was evaluated as hair protection in 61 women with disseminated breast carcinoma, where earlier treatment routines had caused wig-requiring alopecia in nearly all patients.
(2) Which sounds fun, but not when you’re in fourth grade, doing homework Facebook Twitter Pinterest With his mother, wearing her chemotherapy wig, in New York, 1997.
(3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
(4) Sitting opposite her as she eats croissants and fixes on espresso it is hard to equate the immaculate perfection of Guillem the performer, in bobbed wig and suspenders last night, with the awkwardly engaging and somewhat bed-headed Guillem in skinny jeans and T-shirt this morning.
(5) Police said they found wigs, glasses and other disguises in his room.
(6) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
(7) One turns up for bums, rampant historical misrepresentation and a man in a wig roaring "spiritus sanctus" in a 13th-century CGI inferno.
(8) I was reflecting on Trump’s momentum partly because he went from a reality TV wig-joke, to an outspoken liar, to a Republican candidate who didn’t stand a chance of getting the nomination, to a Republican nominee who didn’t stand a chance of winning the election, to the winner of the election who doesn’t stand a chance of destroying the world.
(9) It is tempting to think of Sherman’s own face in among them as a 13th wig stand.
(10) "It's mainly about big government contracts, for the big wigs," he said.
(11) At least I think they're wigs – her hair changes colour and style quite often.
(12) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump’s entrance at DNC “Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket – a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,” she said.
(14) In his most famous self-image , as he sits, ill and emaciated, holding a cane with a carved skull, he is doing more than acknowledge mortality: he is claiming to be the new King Death, inheriting the title Andy Warhol whose fragile head he portrayed with a transcendental clarity, in a portrait so real you feel you could reach into it and hold it, stroke the silver wig.
(15) The resulting theatre work revolves around an attempt, also entirely true, by a Quebecois filmmaker called Yves Simoneau to make a movie about the murder, in which the script's homicidal leading character disguises himself with false eyebrows and a wig.
(16) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
(17) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
(18) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
(19) Excellent aesthetic results were obtained with the use of a wig.
(20) Many actors merely go on the principle of "being their age" and trusting to a wig.