Middle English Dictionary Entry

flux n.
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Entry Info

Forms flux n. Also flix, flokes.
Etymology OF flux (whence flix), & L fluxus.

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.
A pathological flowing of blood (or humors, excretions, discharges) from any part of the body; ~ blod, ~ of blod, profuse bleeding; ~ of the womb, dysentery, diarrhea, or lientery.
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2.
(a) Dysentery; (b) blodi ~, bodi ~, red ~, ~ of blod, ~ of womb, dysentery; also, chronic dysentery.
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3.
(a) Diarrhea; ~ of the womb (stomak), simple ~ of the womb; (b) flow of excrement produced by medicine, purging; (c) fig. a constant flow of speech.
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4.
A disease in which undigested food passes through the bowels and is excreted, lienteria.
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5.
(a) The normal flow of blood through an artery; (b) the flowing of seminal fluid; (c) menstrual flow; menstrual ~.
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6.
(a) Liquid state; (b) flux and reflux, instability (of man's nature).
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Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. flix.

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Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. flux.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. flux of blood.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 1.), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. fluxblood.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 1. and sense 3.(a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. flix of the womb.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 2.(a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. bloody flix.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 2.(b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. bloody flux.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 2.(b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. body flix.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 2.(b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. red flix.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 2.(b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. red flux.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 3.(a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. flux of the womb.

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Note: Med., etc. (sense 3.(a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. simple flux of the womb.

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