Crossword clues for reflux
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reflux \Re"flux`\ (r?"fl?ks`), a. Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.
Reflux \Re"flux`\, n. [F. reflux. See Refluent, Flux.] A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides.
All from me
Shall with a fierce reflux on me redound.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 the backwards flow of any fluid 2 (context chemistry English) a technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period 3 (context pathology English) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus vb. To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser
WordNet
n. an abnormal backward flow of body fluids
the outward flow of the tide [syn: ebb]
Wikipedia
Reflux is a technique involving the condensation of vapors and the return of this condensate to the system from which it originated. It is used in industrial and laboratory distillations. It is also used in chemistry to supply energy to reactions over a long period of time.
Reflux is a distillation technique involving the condensation of vapors and the return of this condensate to the system from which it originated.
Reflux may also refer to:
- Duodenogastric reflux or biliary reflux
- Acid indigestion, cardialgia or pyrosis, all synonyms for heartburn
- Acid reflux disease, gastric reflux disease or gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), all synonyms for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
- Atypical reflux, extraesophageal reflux disease (EERD), supraesophageal reflux or supra-esophageal reflux, all synonyms for laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR)
- Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR)
- superficial venous reflux -- see, e.g., Chronic_venous_insufficiency
- Reflux was a technical/progressive metalcore band from Washington, D.C., which existed from 2002 to 2006. Their guitarist Tosin Abasi has since started his own progressive metal band Animals as Leaders.
Usage examples of "reflux".
It was an attempt at pure Ascent, pure transcendence, pure Reflux, radical detachment.
The flux and reflux of nations are but periods of the forward march: the great centuries of light, which dark ages at times replace, simply mark the phases of that march.
There is a reflux in the tide of human things which bears the shipwrecked hopes of men into a secure haven after the storms are past.
Fabre thus agrees with Pasteur, who in the world of the infinitely little shows us the same antagonisms, the same vital competition, the same eternal movement of flux and reflux, the same whirlpool of life, which is extinguished only to reappear: tending always towards an equilibrium which is incessantly destroyed.
But in the intervals of inspiration, and they may be frequent without being durable, a poet becomes a man, and is abandoned to the sudden reflux of the influences under which others habitually live.
It is remarkable, that the principles of religion have a kind of flux and reflux in the human mind, and that men have a natural tendency to rise from idolatry to theism, and to sink again from theism into idolatry.
Benza, on his third pack of Gaviscom, nursed an upset stomach, his acid reflux acting up.
Suchnessthe timeless and ever-present Ground which is equally and fully present in and as every single being, high or low, ascending or descending, effluxing or refluxing.
Does not the refluxing movement of God and the effluxing movement of the Goddess embrace the entire Circle of Ascent and Descent?
But now at last he saw that the flux and reflux, the play of the tides, which for a part of the day brought the waters to lap the strip of sand that separated them from the forest and for the rest of the day made them withdraw, revealed a rocky expanse that, as Father Caspar explained, was the last outcrop of the coral reef.
One more detail jumps out of the obituary to give me a twinge of acid reflux: the bit about how Jimmy and Cleo Rio first met at a VH1 party.