The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defluxion \De*flux"ion\, n. [L. defluxio.] (Med.)
A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the
nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with
inflammation.
--Dunglison.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A flowing down; a running down. 2 (context medicine English) A discharge or flowing of fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh.
Usage examples of "defluxion".
It sounds to me as if Flint is suffering from a defluxion of rheum," Raistlin replied.
The pose: a defluxion or rheum which stops the nose and obstructs the voice.
And she had a red cheek and a bright eye, and she spake of being soon able to walk unto the meeting, and did seem greatly hopeful, but spare of flesh, methought, and her voice something hoarse, as of one that hath a defluxion, with some small coughing from a cold, as she did say.
It is impossible but in such a composition as man there must be a defluxion of rheum.
Three of the ladies made it through the first ward, with its cases of scrofula, scabies, eczema, defluxions, and stinking pyemia, before deciding that their charitable inclinations could be entirely satisfied by a donation to L'Hôpital, and fleeing back to the dispensary to shed the rough hopsacking gowns with which we had been furnished.
A compound powder of the root (made of equal quantities of Bistort, Pellitory of Spain and burnt Allum made into a paste with a little honey and put in hollow of a tooth or at the side, eases their pain and stops the defluxion of rheum on the part cleanses the head and brain and causes evacuation of abundance of rheumatic matter.