Excessive temporary loss of telogen hair (hair in the telogen, or resting, phase) caused by trauma such as childbirth, surgery, starvation, certain drugs, and high fever. A normal human hair goes through 3 successive stages of growth: The growing, or anagen, stage is the predominant phase (80% to 90% of a person's hair is usually in the anagen [..]

Thinning hair. Rarely results in actual baldness.

Hairshafts are produced by follicles within the skin in all but few locations viz: palms soles, lips, eyelids, backs of distal phalanges and parts of the external genitalia. Each productive hair follicle provides hairshafts throughout the life of the person. Some follicles may intermittently produce vellus or terminal hairshafts.

A scalp disorder characterized by massive hair loss as a result of early entry of hairs into the telogen phase. It may be due to a variety of causes, eating disorders, fever, childbirth, chronic illne [..]