An archaic or dialectal variant term for baldness or the state of being bald.
A variant or anglicized form of Latin 'calvities,' formed with the Latin-derived suffix '-ity' instead of the direct Latin ending, common in older English scientific writing.
This word is so rarely used now that it's basically a linguistic fossil—you'll find it in 17th and 18th-century medical texts, but modern doctors switched to the shorter 'alopecia,' showing how even medical terminology evolves toward efficiency.
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