How to pronounce “reflux”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The backwards flow of any fluid.
• (chemistry) A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
• (pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
• [Verb]
• To flow back or return.
• To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.

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