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Tricho- (prefix)

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Pertaining to hair.

As in trichobezoar (a hair ball), trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling), trichoepithelioma (a tumor from a hair follicle), etc.

From the Greek thrix, trichos, meaning hair.

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