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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

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

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