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defluxions

defluxions is the plural of defluxion.

Meaning of defluxion

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...

Questions about defluxions

What is defluxions the plural of?
Defluxions is the plural of defluxion.

Words near defluxions in the dictionary

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

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