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Glossary Term

Miniaturization

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Miniaturization is the progressive shrinkage of hair follicles triggered when DHT binds to androgen receptors. Over multiple growth cycles, affected follicles produce increasingly finer, shorter hairs until they cease producing visible hair.

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