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re⋅flux

  [ree-fluhks]
–noun
a flowing back; ebb.
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Origin:
1400–50; late ME < ML refluxus. See re-, flux
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re·flux   (rē'flŭks')   
n.  

  1. A flowing back; ebb.

  2. Chemistry The process of refluxing.

v.   re·fluxed, re·flux·ing, re·flux·es Chemistry

v.   tr.
To boil (a liquid) in a vessel attached to a condenser so that the vapors continuously condense for reboiling.
v.   intr.
To be boiled in such a way.

[Medieval Latin reflūxus : Latin re-, re- + Latin flūxus, flow, from past participle of fluere, to flow; see bhleu- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

reflux  (n.)
c.1430, "a flowing back (of the sea, etc.)," from M.L. refluxus, from L. re- "back, again" + fluxus "a flowing" (see flux). Digestive sense is recorded from 1937.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 1re·flux
Pronunciation: 'rE-"fl&ks
Function: noun
1 : a flowing back : REGURGITATION <reflux of gastric acid> reflux> —see GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX
2 : a process of refluxing or condition of being refluxed reflux for 24 hours —T. Y. Ho et al>

Main Entry: 2reflux
Function: adjective
: of, relating to, involving, or caused by reflux <reflux esophagitis>

Main Entry: 3reflux
Function: transitive verb
: to cause to flow back or return; especially : to heat (as under a reflux condenser) so that thevapors formed condense to a liquid that flows back to be heated again reflux intransitive senses
: to flow back refluxed into the esophagus>
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reflux re·flux (rē'flŭks')
n.

  1. A flowing back.

  2. The process of refluxing.

v. re·fluxed, re·flux·ing, re·flux·es
To boil a liquid in a vessel attached to a condenser so that the vapors continuously condense for reboiling.

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