EFFLU'VIUM, nounplural effluvia. [Latin from effluo, to flow out. See Flow.] The minute and often invisible particles which exhale from most, if not all terrestrial bodies, such as the odor or smell of plants, and the noxious exhalations from diseased bodies or putrefying animal or vegetable substances.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.