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defluxion

defluxion noun: a flowing down; a running down.

Noun

defluxion (countable and uncountable, plural defluxions)

  1. (obsolete) A flowing down; a running down.
  2. A discharge or flowing of fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh.
    • […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place...1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, … To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, …, London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys...
    • Chronic defluxion from the nose, with sense of stuffing and fulness, occasionally attends cerebral congestion.1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American Medical Library, part 1, page 205

Forms of defluxion

pluraldefluxions

Origin of defluxion

From Latin defluxio.

Questions about defluxion

What does defluxion mean?
Defluxion means a flowing down; a running down.
What part of speech is defluxion?
Defluxion is a noun.
What is the plural of defluxion?
The plural of defluxion is defluxions.

Words near defluxion in the dictionary

  1. defluorinating
  2. defluorination
  3. defluorinative
  4. defluous
  5. deflux
  6. defluxion
  7. defluxions
  8. defly
  9. defn
  10. defns
  11. defo

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