Meaning of defluxion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A flowing down; a running down.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A discharge or flowing of fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“[…] Lanfrank takes Notice⟳ of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have⟳ ſeen many who being full of Humours, have⟳ made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place⟳ corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."”

“Chronic defluxion from the nose, with sense⟳ of stuffing and fulness, occasionally attends cerebral congestion.”

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