trichotillomania
IPA: trˈɪtʃʌtˈɪɫoʊmˈeɪniʌ
noun
- A medical disorder where someone compulsively pulls their own hair out.
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Examples of "trichotillomania" in Sentences
- Trichotillomania is not a form of self injury.
- Thank you for trying to improve Trichotillomania.
- In trichotillomania, a hair pull test is negative.
- Probably for the same reason I have trichotillomania.
- But rather than indulge in trichotillomania, do something about it.
- A subdivision of the automatic TTM is sleep isolated trichotillomania.
- The inability to control the urge to pick is similar to trichotillomania.
- These findings suggest some differences between OCD and trichotillomania.
- It is likely that multiple genes confer vulnerability to trichotillomania.
- I saw you posted some information under the trichotillomania discussion page.
- The 190-page book is a testimony of her life and her hair-pulling habit, called trichotillomania, or "trich."
- Chloe was diagnosed with a condition called trichotillomania around the time she started sixth grade at Roosevelt Middle School in 2010.
- Often a harmless habit, in its most extreme form, the urge to constantly twirl or pull at hair is called trichotillomania, and it can lead to bald spots or thinning hair.
- The BBC has a news story on the genetics of a disorder called trichotillomania compulsive hair-pulling that typifies the way genetics discoveries are reported in the media.
- TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- A common health-food supplement might help ease the urges of people with a compulsive hair-pulling disorder called trichotillomania, U.S. researchers report.
- Parrots compulsively pluck their own feathers; dogs repetitively lick a paw or other fixed spot; humans develop a condition known as trichotillomania, in which they pull out strands of their hair.
- "The story starts with a mouse mutant that has a very unusual behavior, which is very similar to the obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder in humans called trichotillomania, when patients compulsively remove all their body hair," explained Capecchi, who is a distinguished professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.