I want a new name for my variety of AA

I had AA for 7 years, then I progressed to AT - no scalp hair, but everything else still there. Then, it quickly went to AU. In the past few months, I've started growing hair again, but ONLY on my face. I have eyebrow patches, lashes in the center of my upper eyelids, nose hair, and peach fuzz in places on my cheeks and chin. But, there's not a single, tiny hair anywhere else on my scalp or body.

So, I think that there needs to be a name for when you have hair only from your eyebrows to your chin. Since the other "types" have Latin names, I looked online and found that "face" in Latin is one of three terms:

"facies" - face, visage, countenance /aspect, appearance

"oris" - face, countenance, sight / expression

"visio" - likeness, face, visage

Of the three, I like "oris" - it sounds the most like the existing terms, ending in "-is".

So, I'm officially proposing "alopecia areata oris" for this variety of AA.

Does anyone else have the same type?

What do you think about the name - anyone have a different suggestion?

Mary ( ;-)

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Comment by Mary on July 30, 2009 at 10:50pm
Thank you. I needed a laugh!
Comment by Glenda Folkersen Stroh on August 6, 2009 at 6:44pm
Maru- Loved your pictures...and your attitude. I was thinking facies...No! Sounds to much like feces :) I just lost my last three eyelashes down my daughter in Idahos sink, I told her I left peices of myself there for her! I do have alot of vellus hair on my face and nostril hair...but thats about it! While in Idaho (you will be proud) I walked the greenbelt bald, it was so liberating...but like you say the looks I got were in sympathy for having cancer. I do like AAV (your a deep thinker)!
Comment by Glenda Folkersen Stroh on August 6, 2009 at 6:47pm
Susan...I'm sorry but, those are the two places that make the hair loss tolerable...Oh! and chin, if your older like me Lol!
Comment by Mary on August 11, 2009 at 6:56pm
Here's another thought. I'm AU with a few small patches of hair: "Alopecia Haireata".
Comment by Mary on November 8, 2009 at 10:14am
Good one!

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