trichology

From tricho- +‎ -logy, from Ancient Greek.

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌɪˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

trichology (uncountable)

1. The science or study of hair.
   • 1984, Human Heredity, page 336:

     The remaining chapters cover diseases of the hairy skin and summarize recent developments in laboratory and experimental trichology.

   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     They had spread themselves beneath the oaks and chestnuts and planted the green banks with tussocks of crocuses; it was more like some exercise in trichology than horticulture.

• trichological
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