"alopecian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1986, J. N. Williamson, John Maclay, Wards of Armageddon, page 375",
          "text": "He'd landed on top; Caull had struck his alopecian skull on the pole from which the national banner rose.",
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          "ref": "1990, George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood, Opera - Volume 41, Issues 1-6, pages 226–227",
          "text": "His comparative youth skilfully disguised, Graham-Hall had the advantage over Tear in a grey head of hair which made sense of his barber's-shop visits and also eliminated the novelist's physical resemblance — publicised by the December opera cover — to Michael Chance's alopecian Apollo.",
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        {
          "ref": "1997, J. Henry Allen, Diseases and Therapeutics of the Skin, page 134",
          "text": "This, we know, is peculiar to alopecian syphilis, as well as other diseases of syphilis, also of psoriasis.",
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        "Suffering from or associated with hair loss."
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          "ref": "1992, Sheila Jacobs, The big fall: living with hair loss, page 146",
          "text": "Most partners take their cue from how the alopecian handles the problem. One older woman commented: \"If you work on believing that you are still attractive and lovable, and expect him to think so too, he will usually rise to the occasion!",
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          "ref": "2008, United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Office on Women's Health, The healthy woman: a complete guide for all ages, page 314",
          "text": "Go to a support group. It gets easier knowing you are not alone. I don't intend to get over it, but I do intend to deal with it and support other alopecians.",
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          "ref": "2017, Jeramy Dodds, Drakkar Noir",
          "text": "To save on hairnets in his delicatessen, Santa hires only alopecians from the Appalachians.",
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        "One who suffers from alopecia."
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          "text": "His comparative youth skilfully disguised, Graham-Hall had the advantage over Tear in a grey head of hair which made sense of his barber's-shop visits and also eliminated the novelist's physical resemblance — publicised by the December opera cover — to Michael Chance's alopecian Apollo.",
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          "text": "This, we know, is peculiar to alopecian syphilis, as well as other diseases of syphilis, also of psoriasis.",
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          "text": "Most partners take their cue from how the alopecian handles the problem. One older woman commented: \"If you work on believing that you are still attractive and lovable, and expect him to think so too, he will usually rise to the occasion!",
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          "text": "Go to a support group. It gets easier knowing you are not alone. I don't intend to get over it, but I do intend to deal with it and support other alopecians.",
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