How to Use effluvium in a Sentence
effluvium
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The heat of 1858 made the problem of London’s effluvia unignorable.
—Alexandra Mullen, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
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GIF 2. Towels, mats, and pads A pet mat can keep hairs, dirt, and various bodily effluvia off your seats and carpet.
—Blake Z. Rong, Esquire, 11 May 2017
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What’s more likely is that telogen effluvium is at play (again).
—Jane Chertoff, SELF, 13 July 2018
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The delayed result, a form of diffuse hair loss called telogen effluvium, was causing her hair to fall out in frightening clumps.
—New York Times, 3 Feb. 2020
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But, in some cases, your body might shed an excessive amount of hair (telogen effluvium).
—Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Aug. 2018
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Then there’s Telogen effluvium, or TE, a condition where a physical or emotional stress leads to a rapid shedding of the hair, especially along the temples and sides of the scalp.
—Kristin Auble, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2021
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Over the eight decades of Hanford’s existence, radioactive waste has seeped into the groundwater and radioactive effluvium has been released into the air that has blown for miles.
—oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2021
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Telogen effluvium is a type of hair loss caused by physical or emotional stress.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2021
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Abrupt hormone changes can cause sudden hair loss (telogen effluvium) that recovers over about 6 months time.
—Jane Chertoff, SELF, 13 July 2018
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The condition even has its own name: telogen effluvium.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
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Anagen effluvium is a nonscarring alopecia that affects the follicle in the growth stage when hair suffers a toxic shock (such as chemotherapy), fracturing the shaft in its active growth stage.
—Kristin Auble, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2021
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And because the effluvium of a decomposing body would be repellent to all but insects, Parker and Wilson must have applied serious amounts of insect repellant and air freshener to the corpse.
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2013
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Telogen effluvium is just a fancy name for excessive hair shedding — an annoyance that many people will experience at some point in their life.
—Kaitlyn Pirie, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2020
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But this work—to hold power to account, to safeguard the truth, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, in Finley Peter Dunne’s immortal words—has entered into a fatal bargain with an effluvium that demeans and yet supports it.
—Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
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Stress has been linked to various health issues, including telogen effluvium—a condition where more hairs enter the resting phase of the growth cycle prematurely.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
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Gradually replace the asphalt crust with permeable pavers, and construct a network of underground cisterns so that heavy rains no longer drown the sewer system and pump raw effluvium into our waterways.
—Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Jan. 2018
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Telogen effluvium usually subsides within six months after your body has adjusted to not being on birth control.
—Kathleen Felton, Health, 5 July 2023
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Technically, telogen effluvium is actually a form of hair shedding rather than hair loss, the organization says, meaning that your hair is falling out earlier in its cycle than usual, but it will be replaced by new hair.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Aug. 2018
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Although there are some cases in which genetic hair loss or hair loss due to another condition coincidentally overlap with telogen effluvium, in which cases hair will not grow back on its own, this usually is not the case, Surampudi said.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
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Chronic telogen effluvium, where the shedding continues for months, is possible.
—Melanie Rud, SELF, 26 May 2022
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Telogen effluvium is technically hair shedding rather than full-on hair loss, SELF explained previously.
—Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 11 Aug. 2020
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Telogen effluvium is hair loss caused by high stress, surgeries or other internal issues like thyroid problems or vitamin D deficiency.
—Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 22 Apr. 2022
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Many women who arrive in a dermatologist’s office with prior diagnoses of female pattern hair loss actually have what’s called telogen effluvium.
—Courtney Rubin, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2017
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Thyroid problems: Excessive hair loss, or telogen effluvium, can be a sign that your thyroid gland is overactive (hyperthyroidism) or underactive (hypothyroidism).
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2018
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It is often recommended for male pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia) and telogen effluvium.
—Stephanie Dolgoff and Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2023
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Telogen effluvium is the sudden loss of hair, usually associated with an identifiable factor.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2022
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Experts estimate that between 40 and 50 percent of women experience telogen effluvium, a.k.a.
—Jackie Frere, Redbook, 7 Dec. 2017
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