reflux (noun)
1reflux condenser — noun condenser such that vapor over a boiling liquid is condensed and flows back into the vessel to prevent its contents from boiling dry • Hypernyms: ↑condenser * * * noun : a condenser usually placed upright so that the condensed vapors flow… …
2reflux condenser — noun a water cooled, double walled piece of laboratory glassware that is fitted on top of a vessel of boiling liquid such that vapour condenses and flows back into the vessel, preventing the contents from boiling dry …
3reflux valve — noun : a back pressure valve …
4gastroesophageal reflux — noun reflux of stomach contents into the esophagus • Syn: ↑esophageal reflux, ↑oesophageal reflux • Hypernyms: ↑reflux * * * noun : backward flow of the gastric contents into the esophagus resulting from improper functioning of a sphincter at the …
5reflux — 1. noun a) the backwards flow of any fluid ...after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or… …
6reflux disease — /ˈriflʌks dəziz/ (say reefluks duhzeez) noun → gastro oesophageal reflux disease. Also, reflux oesophagitis …
7reflux — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin refluxus, from Latin re + fluxus flow more at flux Date: 15th century 1. a. a flowing back b. gastroesophageal reflux 2. a process of refluxing or condition of being refluxed II …
8reflux — [ ri:flʌks] noun 1》 Chemistry the process of boiling a liquid so that any vapour is liquefied and returned to the stock. 2》 technical the flowing back of a bodily fluid. verb 1》 Chemistry boil under reflux. 2》 technical (of a bodily fluid) flow… …
9reflux — /ˈriflʌks/ (say reefluks) noun 1. a flowing back; ebb. –verb (t) 2. Chemistry to boil (a liquid) in a vessel attached to a condenser so that the vapour condenses and flows back for reboiling. –verb (i) 3. to flow back. {re + flux. Compare French… …
10reflux condenser — /riflʌks kənˈdɛnsə/ (say reefluks kuhn densuh) noun a condenser attached to a vessel containing a boiling liquid so that the condensed vapour flows back into the vessel, thus preventing it from boiling dry …
