English Dictionary

defluxion

noun

(obsolete) A flowing down; a running down. / (medicine) A discharge or flowing of fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh.

The defluxion of water from the roof created a small waterfall.

意味（1）

(obsolete) A flowing down; a running down.

意味（2）

(medicine) A discharge or flowing of fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh.

[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd.