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Definition of Reflux
1. Noun. An abnormal backward flow of body fluids.
Specialized synonyms: Esophageal Reflux, Gastroesophageal Reflux, Oesophageal Reflux, Hepatojugular Reflux, Ureterorenal Reflux, Vesicoureteral Reflux
2. Noun. The outward flow of the tide.
Definition of Reflux
1. a. Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.
2. n. A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides.
Definition of Reflux
1. Noun. the backwards flow of any fluid ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) a technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period ¹
3. Verb. To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reflux
1. to cause to flow back [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Medical Definition of Reflux
1. A backward or return flow. Origin: L. Fluxus = flow This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reflux
Literary usage of Reflux
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical Conversations: Or, A New System of Physics, by Way of Dialogue by Regnault (Noël) (1731)
"The Flux and reflux of the Sea is an alternate Motion, ... The Flux is the Motion
of the Waters toward the Poles, and the reflux, is their return toward the ..."
2. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Most patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease can be managed by reassurance
and simple life-style adjustments alone. The therapy for those with chronic ..."
3. Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His by Christoph Christian Sturm (1800)
"THE FLUX AND reflux. THE greatest part of the surface of the earth is covered
with water, which is called the Sea ; and that immense heap is very distinct ..."
4. Philosophical Works by David Hume (1854)
"FLUX AND reflux OF POLYTHEISM AND THEISM. IT is remarkable, that the principles
of religion have a kind of flux and reflux in the human mind, ..."
5. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John J. Malham (1810)
"... that intitle themselves to hare unwound the cause of this grand mystery of
nature, the flux and reflux of the sea; but they are erected upon untenable ..."
6. The Philosophical Works of David Hume by David Hume (1826)
"Such at least is the account which Herodotus gives of the the- ism of the immortal
Getes.i SECTION VIII. FLUX AND reflux OF POLYTHEISM AND THEISM. ..."
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