defluxion

(dɪˈflʌkʃən)

1. anything that flows downwards

2. archaic a running downwards

3. med obsolete a flow of bodily humours accompanying a disease

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Diuretic, for bronchitis, asthma, chronic defluxion 7.

Medicinal plants in the healing of dry socket in rats: microbiological and microscopic analysis

Bright-eyed amid the soft silver defluxion of his long locks and beard, the presumed St Andrew carries, as his only mark of identification, a cross which is not appropriately transverse.

Renaissance gothic at the national gallery

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