defluxion

[ dih-fluhk-shuhn ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. a copious discharge of fluid matter, as in catarrh.

Word History and Origins

Origin of defluxion¹

1540–50; < Late Latin dēfluxiōn- (stem of dēfluxiō ) a flowing down, discharge, equivalent to Latin dē- de- + fluxiōn- fluxion

Example Sentences

The conjunctiv� are usually congested, there is an increased nasal defluxion, and the skin of the forehead and over the eyes is drawn into wrinkles.

From Project Gutenberg

Ordinarily, no discharge occurs at first from the nasal surface, but as the disease continues, if the type remain severe, defluxion of thin muco-pus takes place from the Schneiderian surface, which frequently excoriates the cheek.

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If scarlatina occur during a severe attack of entero-colitis attended by purging, the defluxion from the external surface may be such that no efflorescence appears.

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This makes Distempers from Defluxion and Cold so common with us: and it should make us careful to go rather a little more warmly cloathed, than the Season may seem to require; to have Recourse to our Winter-cloathing early in Autumn, and not to part with it too early in the Spring.

From Project Gutenberg

A cold Humour or Defluxion that is determined to the Teeth, and to their Nerves and Membrane.

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