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A falling down or out, as of the hair; Also: A flowing down or discharge of fluid.

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Usage examples (34)
  • "A defluxion of rheum," Tas repeated the words slowly, savoring them.
  • You should put persons on a course of hellebore who are troubled with a defluxion from the head.
  • Such are the symptoms when the defluxion is upon the lungs and heart; but if it be upon the bowels, the person is attacked with diarrhoea.
  • For it is melted down by the heat and diffusion of the but it is excreted by the congealing and contracting of it, and thus a defluxion takes place.
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