Reflux Definition
 rēflŭks 
  refluxes
  
    noun
  
 
    refluxes
  
A flowing back; ebb.
 American Heritage Medicine 
A flowing back; ebb; specif., regurgitation of food or gastric acid from the stomach to the esophagus.
 Webster's New World 
The process of refluxing.
 American Heritage Medicine 
(chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
Wiktionary 
Synonyms: 
  
    verb
  
 
    refluxes
  
To boil (a liquid) in a vessel attached to a condenser so that the vapors continuously condense for reboiling.
 American Heritage 
To be boiled in such a way.
 American Heritage Medicine 
To flow back; undergo backflow.
 American Heritage Medicine 
Other Word Forms of Reflux
Noun
Singular:
 refluxPlural:
 refluxesOrigin of Reflux
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Medieval Latin reflūxus Latin re- re- Latin flūxus flow from past participle of fluere to flow bhleu- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
 
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