alopecia
Hair loss
anticoagulant
A medication that prevents or slows (anti) KEY TERMS blood clotting (coagulate)
bed bugs
Small, flat, red-brown insects that may live around or near areas where people sleep and that feed on the blood of people and animals
dandruff
Excessive amounts of dry, white flakes from the scalp
hirsutism
Excessive body hair
lice
See “pediculosis”
mite
A very small, spiderlike organism
pediculosis
Infestation with wingless insects; lice
pediculosis capitis
Infestation of the scalp (capitis) with lice; head lice
pediculosis corporis
Infestation of the body (corporis) with lice
pediculosis pubis
Infestation of the pubic (pubis) hair with lice
IV
Intravenous