alopecia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ălōpĕcĭa, ae, f., = ἀλωπεκία,

the foxsickness , in which the hair falls off , the foxmange , a disease common among foxes (usu. in plur.), Plin. 20, 22, 87, § 239; 20, 5, 20, § 41.

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