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telogen effluvium
the early, excessive, temporary loss of normal club hairs from normal resting follicles in the scalp as a result of traumatization
by some stimulus (such as surgery, starvation diet, childbirth, drugs, traction, high fever, certain diseases, or psychogenic
stress) that prematurely precipitates the anagen phase into catagen and telogen phases, altering the normal hair cycle.

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