Rare diseases · Sign or symptom
Generalized hirsutism
Excessive hairiness over body
HP:0002230
What it means
Abnormally increased hair growth over much of the entire body.
Rare diseases that can present with this61
Very common80–99%
22- Acquired hypertrichosis lanuginosa
- Autosomal dominant popliteal pterygium syndrome
- Barber-Say syndrome
- Cantú syndrome
- Cataract-hypertrichosis-intellectual disability syndrome
- Cervical hypertrichosis-peripheral neuropathy syndrome
- Cornelia de Lange syndrome
- Craniodigital-intellectual disability syndrome
- Dahlberg-Borer-Newcomer syndrome
- Fetal minoxidil syndrome
- Gingival fibromatosis-hypertrichosis syndrome
- Gorlin-Chaudhry-Moss syndrome
- Hurler syndrome
- Hypertrichosis cubiti
- Hypertrichosis lanuginosa congenita
- Insulin-resistance syndrome type A
- Leukomelanoderma-infantilism-intellectual disability-hypodontia-hypotrichosis syndrome
- Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, encephalomyopathic form with methylmalonic aciduria
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type 1
- Mucopolysaccharidosis type 3
- Neurocutaneous melanocytosis
- Progeroid syndrome, Petty type
Common30–79%
18- 17q21.31microduplication syndrome
- 2q23.1microdeletion syndrome
- Acromegaly
- Aromatase deficiency
- Corpus callosum agenesis-abnormal genitalia syndrome
- Curry-Jones syndrome
- Edinburgh malformation syndrome
- GM1 gangliosidosis
- Hajdu-Cheney syndrome
- Marshall-Smith syndrome
- Micro syndrome
- Prolidase deficiency
- Ramon syndrome
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome
- Somatomammotropinoma
- Split cord malformation type I
- Trisomy 17p syndrome
- X-linked intellectual disability, Nascimento type
Sometimes5–29%
21- 19p13.12microdeletion syndrome
- 1p36deletion syndrome
- 4q21microdeletion syndrome
- Acquired generalized lipodystrophy
- Acquired partial lipodystrophy
- Autosomal semi-dominant severe lipodystrophic laminopathy
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome
- Brachymorphism-onychodysplasia-dysphalangism syndrome
and 13 more in this range
The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.
Part of the broader category
Also called: Generalised hirsutism
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