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Definition of Effluvia
1. effluvium [n] - See also: effluvium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Effluvia
Literary usage of Effluvia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1814)
"Ail Essay towards an Inquiry how for the effluvia from dead Animal Bodies, passing
through the natural process of Putrefaction, are efficient in the ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"... which were in unbroken communication with a drain outside, offensive effluvia
at times made their way into the dwellings, these having been especially ..."
3. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1806)
"REMARKABLE EFFECT OF effluvia, &C. every amputation he would attack the bull.
... Remarkable Effect of the effluvia from Ammonia Mn. riate of Platina on the ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"... which were in unbroken communication with a drain outside, offensive effluvia
at times made their way into the dwellings, these having been especially ..."
5. Yellow Fever, Considered in Its Historical, Pathological, Etiological, and by René La Roche (1855)
"Sources of the effluvia different.—These fevers all differ from each other ;
while none of them resemble exactly the form of disease which constitutes the ..."
6. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"But others there are amongst the ancient Atomists, who could not conceive sensations
themselves to be thus caused by corporeal effluvia, ..."
7. A Compendious System of Natural Philosophy: With Notes Containing the by John Rowning (1744)
"... effluvia, for th£y iwim near th§ Top of the ... lighter than that wherein "th^
effluvia reft, that is^ directly ".upwards from ..."
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