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Monilethrix
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Monilethrix (also referred to as beaded hair)[1] is a rare autosomal dominant hair disease that results in short, fragile, broken hair that appears beaded.[2][3] It comes from the Latin word for necklace (monile) and the Greek word for hair (thrix).[4] Hair becomes brittle, and breaks off at the thinner parts between the beads. It appears as a thinning or baldness of hair and was first described in 1897 by Walter Smith[5]
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Monilethrix | |
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Other names | Moniliform hair syndrome |
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Beaded hair (60x magnification). | |
Specialty | Medical genetics ![]() |
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