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effluvia

effluvia is the plural of effluvium.

Meaning of effluvium

Noun

effluvium (countable and uncountable, plural effluvia or effluviums)

  1. A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
    • 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.1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XV, page 188
  2. A condition causing the shedding of hair.
    • Reversible hair loss or effluvium occurs following either endogenous or exogenous damage to anagen hair follicles[…].2000, Dr. Otto Braun-Falco et al., “Diseases of hair”, in Dermatology, →ISBN, page 1136

Questions about effluvia

What is effluvia the plural of?
Effluvia is the plural of effluvium.

Words near effluvia in the dictionary

  1. effluent
  2. effluents
  3. effluous
  4. effluve
  5. effluves
  6. effluvia
  7. effluviable
  8. effluvial
  9. effluviant
  10. effluviate
  11. effluviated

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