This is subtle, but it came to me (not for the first time) that I feel a certain ambiguity about the phrase "male pattern baldness," having to do with nounal and adectival matters.
Do you think of it as:
[male pattern] baldness
OR
male [pattern baldness]
that is, a slight pause after "male pattern" making it an adjectival phrase, or a slight pause after "male," making "pattern baldness" a noun phrase?
I hope no one loses any sleep over this...
But "Ming wants to know."
