Ophiasis is a form of alopecia areata characterized by the loss of hair in the shape of a wave at the circumference of the head.
Ophiasis is a form of alopecia areata characterized by the loss of hair in the shape of a wave at the circumference of the head.
It gets its name from Greek ὄφις ophis 'snake' because of the apparent similarity to a snake-shape and the pattern of hair loss.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).