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Effluvium

//ɪˈfluːvi.əm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one. countable, uncountable

    "She was now bending over a huge light wood blaze, with a pipe of rude structure and no small dimensions in her mouth, from which the occasional puff went forth, filling the apartment with the unpleasant effluvia of the vilest leaf-tobacco."

  2. 2
    a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) wordnet
  3. 3
    A condition causing the shedding of hair. countable, uncountable

    "Reversible hair loss or effluvium occurs following either endogenous or exogenous damage to anagen hair follicles[…]."

Etymology

From Latin effluvium (“an outlet”), from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”).

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