| ICD9 = | }} Hypertrichosis specifically refers to hair density or length beyond the accepted limits of normal for a particular age, race, or sex, and may be generalized or localized, and may be lanugo, vellus, or terminal hair. Restated, hypertrichosis's an overgrowth of hair not localized to the androgen-dependent areas of the skin. Several circus side show performers in the 19th and early 20th centuries suffered from hypertrichosis. They were usually displayed as "freaks" and promoted as if… (
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