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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

Evidently, telogen effluvium happens when the body undergoes emotional, physical or hormonal shock and pushes more hairs than usual into the resting phase.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2025

According to Garza, simply managing your stress may be another solution to 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 drains are badly made and left absolutely to themselves until, choked up, they are opened up for repairs, when the hidden compressed effluvia send their noxious vapours into the homes around.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by J. (John) Macgowan

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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