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effluvium

[ih-floo-vee-uhm] / ɪˈflu vi əm /


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Unlike genetic or hormone-driven loss, I had a textbook case of telogen effluvium, or stress shedding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

It can last three to six months but the silver lining is that telogen effluvium can be reversed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025

It is not specific to COVID-19: Experts have known for centuries that severe illness, surgery, blood loss, hospitalization, childbirth and extreme emotional events, like the loss of a loved one, can trigger telogen effluvium.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

Once such undisguised hatred is hurled, its effluvium clings, no matter how much is done to wash it away.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 24, 2020

The gutters filled with rust-colored pine needles and the pungent effluvium of alder leaves, and the drainpipes splashed with winter rain.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

One turbine spins in the fiery effluvia of engine exhaust, with temperatures around 1,000 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Many Wallingford houses were built to avoid the hellish view of tower effluvia.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

Today's equivalent might be a sewer worker - but rather than scrabbling through effluvia for scrap metal they go underground for maintenance, such as the grim job of clearing fatbergs.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021

But she also makes you fear for Alexia, who can outrun the authorities but can’t escape the agonizing contortions and messy alien effluvia of her own body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

The unfortunate man only survived the event four days, when mortification of the burnt parts was most extensive, and the body emitted intolerable putrid effluvia.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

The reason for the stillness is the neighborhood's proximity to something called the Brio Superfund site, a place that once housed two waste-disposal plants and now contains a witches' brew of toxic effluviums.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boyle's tracts of the years 1673 and 1674 on "effluviums," their "determinate nature," their "strange subtilty," and their "great efficacy," are examples.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert




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