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defluxion

[ dih-fluhk-shuhn ]

noun

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


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of defluxion1

1540–50; < Late Latin »åŧ´Ú±ô³Ü³æ¾±Å²Ô- (stem of »åŧ´Ú±ô³Ü³æ¾±Å ) a flowing down, discharge, equivalent to Latin »åŧ- de- + ´Ú±ô³Ü³æ¾±Å²Ô- fluxion
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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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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.

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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.

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One of the slightest Effects of much solar Heat upon the Head is, to cause a Defluxion from the Brain, a Swelling of the Glands of the Neck, and a Dryness of the Eyes, which sometimes continues for a considerable Term after it.

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