Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a flowing, running, or falling of humors or fluid matter from an upper to a lower part of the body; a discharge or flowing off of humors: as, a defluxion from the nose or head in catarrh: sometimes used as synonymous with inflammation, from the increased flow of blood (hyperemia) to an inflamed part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with
inflammation .
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- noun obsolete A flowing down; a running down.
- noun medicine A
discharge or flowing offluid matter , as from thenose incatarrh .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The horse “had a defluxion from the nose at the time of the bargain,” but McFarland “assured Newman it was no more than the ordinary distemper to which colts are subject.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The horse “had a defluxion from the nose at the time of the bargain,” but McFarland “assured Newman it was no more than the ordinary distemper to which colts are subject.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The horse “had a defluxion from the nose at the time of the bargain,” but McFarland “assured Newman it was no more than the ordinary distemper to which colts are subject.”
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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When any of these things occur, the body immediately shivers, the person becoming speechless cannot draw his breath, but the breath (pneuma) stops, the brain is contracted, the blood stands still, and thus the excretion and defluxion of the phlegm take place.
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For it does not receive the spirits as much breath as he needs until the defluxion of phlegm be mastered, and being heated is distributed to the veins, then it ceases from its palpitation and difficulty of breathing, and this takes place as soon as it obtains an abundant supply; and this will be more slowly, provided the defluxion be more abundant, or if it be less, more quickly.
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About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout.
Of The Epidemics 2007
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You should put persons on a course of hellebore who are troubled with a defluxion from the head.
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But should the defluxion make its way to the heart, the person is seized with palpitation and asthma, the chest becomes diseased, and some also have curvature of the spine.
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For when a defluxion of cold phlegm takes place on the lungs and heart, the blood is chilled, and the veins, being violently chilled, palpitate in the lungs and heart, and the heart palpitates, so that from this necessity asthma and orthopnoea supervene.
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Such are the symptoms when the defluxion is upon the lungs and heart; but if it be upon the bowels, the person is attacked with diarrhoea.
chained_bear commented on the word defluxion
Usage on pyemia.
December 31, 2009
biocon commented on the word defluxion
In addition to the definition above, defluxion means 1. a flowing or running down; 2. something that flows or runs down; 3. an effluence or emanation; 4. a falling off (of hair) (OEM).
February 11, 2012