FLUX, in Medicine, an extraordinary issue or evacuation of some humour. Fluxes are various, and variously denominated, according to their seats or the humours thus voided; as a flux of the belly, uterine flux, hepatic flux, salival flux, &c. The flux of the belly is of four kinds, which have each their respective denominations, viz. the lientery, or fluxus lientericus; the colic, or fluxus chylosus; the diarrhea; and the dysentery, or bloody flux. See MEDICINE INDEX.
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