capilliculture

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noun

The medical treatment of the hair or of baldness.

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Meanings

nouncapilliculture (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableThe medical treatment of the hair or of baldness.

    […] devoted her time to many sports and a great variety of beauty treatments ranging from manicures to Rolfing to highlighting by biocosmeticians specializing in capilliculture.

    2007, Jean-Paul Dubois, Vie Francaise, page 131
    1 more example

    Crude oil enjoys a vogue in the realm of capilliculture based upon the belief that its action as a rubefacient and as a stimulant of the sebaceous secretion is peculiarly efficacious […]

    1916, Druggists' Circular, volume 60, page 218
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