hypertrichosis

[ hahy-per-tri-koh-sis ]

noun

1. excessive growth of hair.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypertrichosis¹

hyper- + trichosis

Example Sentences

He and his team of curators were gazing, fascinated, at a 16th-century portrait of Antonietta Gonzales, a girl with hypertrichosis, a rare congenital condition that causes excessive facial hair growth.

From New York Times

Flickering Myth calls the film a “dark fairy tale” about a lonely, outcast boy with hypertrichosis — a condition that causes abnormal hair growth over the face and body — who goes off in search of his mother.

From Washington Post

The boy, Paul, suffers from hypertrichosis, or “werewolf syndrome,” which is a thing.

From Los Angeles Times

The children who took the mislabeled medicine, some of them babies, began growing hair all over their bodies, a rare condition known as hypertrichosis, Spain’s health minister said on Wednesday.

From New York Times

Giving the infants minoxidil created an appearance of hypertrichosis, also known as "werewolf syndrome", a rare condition that causes excessive thick hair growth over the body, often in unusual places, such as the face.

From BBC