effluvium
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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
Sudden hair loss of the type you describe is known as telogen effluvium.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024
Intense stress, as well as post-viral inflammation from Covid-19, can also cause temporary hair loss known as telogen effluvium.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2021
Yes, shadowy: a myth, a phantom: something which they engendered and created whole themselves; some effluvium of Sutpen blood and character, as though as a man he did not exist at all.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
