effluvium
Example Sentences
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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
Sudden hair loss of the type you describe is known as telogen effluvium.
From Seattle Times
Many Wallingford houses were built to avoid the hellish view of tower effluvia.
From Seattle Times
Sudden and temporary hair loss has a medical name: telogen effluvium.
From Seattle Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
