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effluvium

[ih-floo-vee-uhm] / ɪˈflu vi əm /


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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

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

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2025

Instead, it is a sudden, stress-induced shedding, known medically as telogen effluvium, the American Academy of Dermatology says.

From Seattle Times Sep. 29, 2022

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

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 infection did not seem to depend so much on any prevailing disposition of the air as upon effluvia received from the breath of infected persons.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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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