Milady Chapter 11

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Alopecia

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abnormal hair loss

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Alopecia Areata

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autoimmune disorder that causes the affected hair follicles to be mistakenly attacked by a person's own immune system; usually begins with one or more small, round. smooth bald patches on the scalp

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Alopecia Totalis

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Total loss of scalp hair

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Alopecia Universalis

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complete loss of body hair

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Amino Acids

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Units that are joined together end to end like pop beads by strong chemical peptide bonds to form the polpeptide chains that comprise proteins

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Anagen Phase

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Also known as growth phase during which new hair is produced

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Adrogenic Alopecia

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Hair loss characterized by miniaturization of terminal hair that is converted to vellus hair; in men its known as make pattern baldness. Also known as androgenetic alopecia

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Canities

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Technical term for gray hair; results from the loss of the hair's natural pigment

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Carbuncle

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inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue caused by staphylococci; similar to furuncle but larger

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Catagen Phase

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the brief transition between the growth and resting phases of a hair follice. it signals the end if a growth phase

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COHNS Elements

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the five elements that make up human hair, skin, tissue, and nails(carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur,)

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Cortex

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Middle layer of the hair, a fiberous protein core formed by elongated cells containing melanin pigment

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Cowlick

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Tuft of hair that stands straight up

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Cysteine

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an amino acid joined with another cystine amino acid

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Cystine

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an amino acid that joins two peptide strands

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Disulfide Bond

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Strong chemical side bond that joins the sulfur atoms of two neighboring cysteine amino acid to create one cystine, which joins together polypeptide strands like rungs on a ladder