tricho-, trich-, -tricha, -trichia, -trichan, -trichic, -trichosis, -trichous, -thrix, -trichum, -trichy +

An abnormal dislike of excessive hair on the body: Joe, suffering from hypertrichophobia, was oversensitive about the growth of whiskers on his face and the growth of such threadlike structures on his chest and back, so he shaved twice a day and had the other growths removed regularly!

An excessive growth of the eyebrows or having excessively hairy eyebrows: Mr. Black's eyebrows were quite dark and profuse, and at the dermatologist's hea was told that he had hypertrichophrydia that even grew together above his nose and could have been inherited.

1. Generalizes excessive growth of hair where hair normally grows: Hypertrichosis universalis is a rare skin disorder of superfluous presence of hair over the whole body except for the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, and mucus membranes.
2. Excessive growth of the hair; also called polytrichia and polytrichosis..

Here is a special article about the X-ray treatment of hypertrichosis.

A medical condition referring to excessive body hair, either affecting most of the torso and limbs, or localized to an area of skin: Hypertricosis can be present in the face and neck and is also called "werewolf syndrome" or "human-werewolf syndrome".

Hypertrichiasis can refer to the growth of hair in any pattern which is excessive for the age, sex, and the race of the subject or person.

A congenital deficiency of hair: Sometimes babies are born with hypotrichia meaning that they are lacking hair possibly due to genetic reasons.

A less than normal amount of hair on the head and/or body; hypotrichiasis; oligotrichia; oligotrichosis: Little Sally's parents wondered why their daughter had dry, thin, brittle, and frizzy hair, and their dermatologist said that she had a rare case of hypotrichiasis

Congenital deficiency or sparsity of hair: Hypotrichosis can also be explained as the diminished growth of hair.

A reference to the Hypotricha,, an order of the class Ciliata of Protozoa: Hypotrichous organisms have the locomotive cilia confined to the ventral (stomach) surface.

The division of mankind which embraces the smooth-haired races: In anthropology, Leiotrichi comprises the races of people distinguished by their smooth hair. Races with hair that is not smooth are referred to as "Ulotrichi".

Regarding the condition of having straight and smooth, or nearly smooth, hair: When Sally was at the hairdresser's, she was told that having her hair curled would be useless because she had very leiotrichous hair and all the curls would not stay that way at all!

The trait of possessing straight and smooth, or nearly smooth, hair: Jenifer always had long leiotrichy, which she braided every morning.

One of the extended jointed rays in the pectoral fins of osteichthyan fish: Lepidotrichia are bony, bilaterally-paired, segmented fin rays found in bony fishes.

They develop around actinotrichia as part of the dermal exoskeleton. Lepidotrichia may also have some cartilage or bone in them. They are actually segmented and appear as a series of disks stacked on top of each other.

A condition in which the shaft of the hair is encased in hardened, scaly, sebaceous matter: A lepothrix is a skin disorder in which masses of reddish, black, and yellow fungous material are found in nodular or diffuse distribution about the axillary or genital hair; usually seen in those who sweat freely.

A genus of anaerobic, gram-negative, filamentous bacteria: Members of the Leptotrichia can naturally occur in the oral cavity but can also occur in the genitourinary tract.

They consist of straight or slightly curved, nonmotile rods with one or both ends rounded or pointed, arranged frequently in pairs or long filaments.

Any disease attributed to a species of Leptotrichia (or Leptothrix): : For class, Luke tried to find more information about leptotrichosis and went to the local library which had only a few books with such ailments.

In fact, Leptotrichia is considered a doubtful pathogen and this is not a useful term (according to the International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology, Volume II, Churchill Livingston, New York, 1986).